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Changing How Literacy Is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics

Overview of attention for article published in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#42 of 905)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
283 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

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99 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Changing How Literacy Is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics
Published in
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, May 2018
DOI 10.1257/pol.20160514
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 13%
Student > Master 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Researcher 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 47 47%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 18%
Psychology 13 13%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 47 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 247. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#190,142
of 34,408,222 outputs
Outputs from American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
#42
of 905 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,575
of 370,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
#2
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,408,222 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 905 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 52.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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