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The measurement of populist attitudes: Testing cross-national scales using item response theory

Overview of attention for article published in Politics, July 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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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2 blogs
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43 X users
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Article details
Title
The measurement of populist attitudes: Testing cross-national scales using item response theory
Published in
Politics, July 2019
DOI 10.1177/0263395719859306
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 112 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 19%
Student > Master 14 13%
Researcher 14 13%
Lecturer 10 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 31 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 54 48%
Psychology 16 14%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Computer Science 2 2%
Environmental Science 1 <1%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 32 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 01 December 2025.
All research outputs
#1,364,549
of 33,493,714 outputs
Outputs from Politics
#51
of 774 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,745
of 385,579 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Politics
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,493,714 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 774 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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