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Are election results more unpredictable? A forecasting test

Overview of attention for article published in Political Science Research and Methods, May 2019
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Are election results more unpredictable? A forecasting test
Published in
Political Science Research and Methods, May 2019
DOI 10.1017/psrm.2019.24
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 19 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 16%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 16%
Other 2 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Professor 2 11%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 53%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Unknown 8 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 25 June 2022.
All research outputs
#1,155,937
of 30,042,065 outputs
Outputs from Political Science Research and Methods
#54
of 701 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,170
of 369,974 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Science Research and Methods
#2
of 20 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 701 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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