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Candidates and campaigns: How they alter election forecasts

Overview of attention for article published in Electoral Studies, August 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Candidates and campaigns: How they alter election forecasts
Published in
Electoral Studies, August 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.04.014
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 5 12%
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Master 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 16 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 44%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Computer Science 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 2%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 16 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 08 February 2020.
All research outputs
#2,455,506
of 28,812,439 outputs
Outputs from Electoral Studies
#339
of 1,599 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,961
of 347,856 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Electoral Studies
#9
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,812,439 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,599 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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