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Are School Uniforms a Good Fit?

Overview of attention for article published in Educational Policy, October 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#22 of 685)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
80 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
7 Redditors

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mendeley
52 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Are School Uniforms a Good Fit?
Published in
Educational Policy, October 2009
DOI 10.1177/0895904808330170
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 17%
Student > Master 8 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Postgraduate 5 10%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 13 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 31%
Psychology 6 12%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Sports and Recreations 2 4%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 15 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 129. 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 06 September 2026.
All research outputs
#411,109
of 34,793,931 outputs
Outputs from Educational Policy
#22
of 685 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#890
of 153,219 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Educational Policy
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,793,931 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 685 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 153,219 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 99% of its contemporaries.
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