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“Family Achievements?”: How a College Degree Accumulates Wealth for Whites and Not For Blacks

Overview of attention for article published in Review (00149187), January 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 239)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
56 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
17 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

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50 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“Family Achievements?”: How a College Degree Accumulates Wealth for Whites and Not For Blacks
Published in
Review (00149187), January 2017
DOI 10.20955/r.2017.121-137
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 49 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 16%
Student > Master 8 16%
Professor 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 12 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 20 40%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 14 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 468. 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 06 February 2025.
All research outputs
#73,580
of 34,372,222 outputs
Outputs from Review (00149187)
#2
of 239 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,334
of 462,449 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review (00149187)
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,372,222 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 239 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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