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The Gold Standard As a Rule: An Essay in Exploration

Overview of attention for article published in Explorations in Economic History, October 1995
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 774)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
q&a
1 Q&A thread

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68 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Gold Standard As a Rule: An Essay in Exploration
Published in
Explorations in Economic History, October 1995
DOI 10.1006/exeh.1995.1019
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Spain 2 3%
Germany 1 1%
Colombia 1 1%
Unknown 64 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Professor 3 4%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 14 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 28 41%
Social Sciences 16 24%
Engineering 2 3%
Philosophy 1 1%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 18 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. 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 July 2025.
All research outputs
#1,457,486
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Explorations in Economic History
#46
of 774 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#404
of 34,687 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Explorations in Economic History
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 774 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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