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Do Negative Messages Work?

Overview of attention for article published in American Politics Research, September 2004
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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 (96th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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1 X user
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
Do Negative Messages Work?
Published in
American Politics Research, September 2004
DOI 10.1177/1532673x03260834
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 82 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 19%
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Researcher 6 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 16 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 52 60%
Arts and Humanities 6 7%
Psychology 4 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Philosophy 1 1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 19 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 21 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,042,941
of 34,622,316 outputs
Outputs from American Politics Research
#186
of 872 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,073
of 98,508 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Politics Research
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,622,316 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 872 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 26.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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