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Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Economic Studies, February 2019
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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 (89th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
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2 Redditors

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Article details
Title
Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Published in
Review of Economic Studies, February 2019
DOI 10.1093/restud/rdz009
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 169 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 18%
Student > Master 20 12%
Student > Bachelor 16 9%
Researcher 13 8%
Other 10 6%
Other 28 17%
Unknown 51 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 70 41%
Social Sciences 29 17%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 2%
Psychology 2 1%
Other 7 4%
Unknown 54 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 June 2022.
All research outputs
#2,388,354
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from Review of Economic Studies
#490
of 2,360 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,540
of 393,368 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Economic Studies
#7
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,360 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 393,368 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 89% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its contemporaries.