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Floods, Invaders, and Parasites: Immigration Threat Narratives and Right-Wing Populism in the USA, UK and Australia

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Intercultural Studies, October 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 531)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
3 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

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135 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Floods, Invaders, and Parasites: Immigration Threat Narratives and Right-Wing Populism in the USA, UK and Australia
Published in
Journal of Intercultural Studies, October 2015
DOI 10.1080/07256868.2015.1072907
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 135 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 20%
Student > Bachelor 20 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 5%
Lecturer 5 4%
Other 18 13%
Unknown 40 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 56 41%
Arts and Humanities 10 7%
Psychology 6 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 3%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 16 12%
Unknown 40 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 12 August 2026.
All research outputs
#744,414
of 34,115,020 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Intercultural Studies
#3
of 531 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,507
of 317,069 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Intercultural Studies
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,115,020 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 531 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 317,069 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them