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The New American McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East

Overview of attention for article published in Race & Class, July 2004
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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 (98th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
wikipedia
22 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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30 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The New American McCarthyism: Policing Thought about the Middle East
Published in
Race & Class, July 2004
DOI 10.1177/0306396804045517
Authors

Joel Beinin

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 30 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 17%
Lecturer 4 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 13%
Student > Master 4 13%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 13%
Other 7 23%
Unknown 2 7%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 60%
Arts and Humanities 4 13%
Psychology 2 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 2 7%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,336,942
of 34,329,910 outputs
Outputs from Race & Class
#63
of 799 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,569
of 84,855 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Race & Class
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,329,910 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 799 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 84,855 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 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