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“Kidlit” as “Law-And-Lit”: Harry Potter and the Scales of Justice

Overview of attention for article published in Law and Literature, December 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#18 of 208)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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6 X users
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1 Facebook page
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9 Wikipedia pages

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11 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“Kidlit” as “Law-And-Lit”: Harry Potter and the Scales of Justice
Published in
Law and Literature, December 2013
DOI 10.1525/lal.2002.14.3.545
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 9%
Unknown 10 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 27%
Student > Master 2 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 9%
Unknown 4 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 36%
Arts and Humanities 2 18%
Environmental Science 1 9%
Computer Science 1 9%
Unknown 3 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 October 2025.
All research outputs
#5,825,998
of 33,977,172 outputs
Outputs from Law and Literature
#18
of 208 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#56,717
of 376,212 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Law and Literature
#4
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,977,172 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 208 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 376,212 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 38 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.