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Immigration and the American Obesity Epidemic1

Overview of attention for article published in International Migration Review, July 2018
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
reddit
4 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
56 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Immigration and the American Obesity Epidemic1
Published in
International Migration Review, July 2018
DOI 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2009.00764.x
Pubmed ID
Authors

Lingxin Hao, Julie J H Kim

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 53 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 20%
Student > Master 11 20%
Student > Bachelor 8 14%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 9%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 8 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 20 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 10 18%
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 26 August 2026.
All research outputs
#2,411,546
of 34,217,933 outputs
Outputs from International Migration Review
#139
of 1,608 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,529
of 351,086 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Migration Review
#40
of 323 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,217,933 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 1,608 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 351,086 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 323 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.