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The art of shoe-throwing: shoes as a symbol of protest and popular imagination

Overview of attention for article published in Media, War & Conflict, July 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#50 of 463)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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1 X user
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor
podcasts
2 podcasts

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Article details
Title
The art of shoe-throwing: shoes as a symbol of protest and popular imagination
Published in
Media, War & Conflict, July 2009
DOI 10.1177/1750635209104655
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
United Kingdom 1 5%
Unknown 19 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 33%
Student > Master 4 19%
Researcher 3 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 48%
Arts and Humanities 5 24%
Computer Science 2 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Design 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 31 July 2026.
All research outputs
#2,819,983
of 34,347,532 outputs
Outputs from Media, War & Conflict
#50
of 463 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,149
of 172,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media, War & Conflict
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,347,532 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 463 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 172,486 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 4 of them.