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History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence From Colonial Railways, Settlers and Cities In Kenya*

Overview of attention for article published in Economic Journal, January 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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1 blog
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6 policy sources
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Article details
Title
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence From Colonial Railways, Settlers and Cities In Kenya*
Published in
Economic Journal, January 2017
DOI 10.1111/ecoj.12347
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Romania 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 265 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 77 29%
Student > Master 29 11%
Researcher 25 9%
Student > Bachelor 22 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Other 38 14%
Unknown 68 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 110 41%
Social Sciences 44 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 2%
Environmental Science 6 2%
Other 21 8%
Unknown 69 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 01 June 2026.
All research outputs
#1,551,426
of 34,526,284 outputs
Outputs from Economic Journal
#466
of 3,777 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,013
of 465,309 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Economic Journal
#6
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,526,284 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,777 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its contemporaries.