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The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change

Overview of attention for article published in American Sociological Review, February 2009
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
3 policy sources
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Article details
Title
The Discipline of Rankings: Tight Coupling and Organizational Change
Published in
American Sociological Review, February 2009
DOI 10.1177/000312240907400104
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 8 1%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
Germany 5 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Russia 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 5 <1%
Unknown 717 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 212 28%
Student > Master 102 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 62 8%
Researcher 59 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 45 6%
Other 124 17%
Unknown 144 19%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 277 37%
Business, Management and Accounting 210 28%
Arts and Humanities 18 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 17 2%
Psychology 14 2%
Other 56 7%
Unknown 156 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 23 April 2024.
All research outputs
#2,259,973
of 29,648,511 outputs
Outputs from American Sociological Review
#573
of 2,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,449
of 211,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Sociological Review
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,648,511 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 2,176 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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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.