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Status Attainment Processes

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology of Education, January 1973
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
5 policy sources
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
151 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Status Attainment Processes
Published in
Sociology of Education, January 1973
DOI 10.2307/2112205
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 146 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 25%
Student > Master 19 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 9%
Researcher 11 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 9 6%
Other 25 17%
Unknown 36 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 90 60%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 4%
Psychology 6 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 1%
Other 4 3%
Unknown 37 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 18 December 2025.
All research outputs
#2,409,230
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from Sociology of Education
#138
of 638 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#213
of 22,164 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology of Education
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,332,113 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 638 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% 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 22,164 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 99% 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 3 of them.