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The Bengal Famine of 1943: re-examining the data

Overview of attention for article published in The Indian Economic & Social History Review, December 1990
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Article details
Title
The Bengal Famine of 1943: re-examining the data
Published in
The Indian Economic & Social History Review, December 1990
DOI 10.1177/001946469002700403
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 18%
Researcher 3 18%
Student > Bachelor 2 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 7 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 4 24%
Social Sciences 3 18%
Environmental Science 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Unknown 8 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 11 July 2026.
All research outputs
#9,321,154
of 34,365,356 outputs
Outputs from The Indian Economic & Social History Review
#77
of 458 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,038
of 85,592 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Indian Economic & Social History Review
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,365,356 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 458 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% 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 85,592 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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