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Confronting the white elephant: International volunteering and racial (dis)advantage

Overview of attention for article published in Progress in Development Studies, August 2015
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3 Wikipedia pages

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52 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Confronting the white elephant: International volunteering and racial (dis)advantage
Published in
Progress in Development Studies, August 2015
DOI 10.1177/1464993415578983
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
New Zealand 1 2%
Unknown 50 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 17 33%
Student > Bachelor 11 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 6%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 4 8%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 54%
Arts and Humanities 6 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 8%
Psychology 2 4%
Sports and Recreations 2 4%
Other 5 10%
Unknown 5 10%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 October 2026.
All research outputs
#7,594,783
of 23,153,184 outputs
Outputs from Progress in Development Studies
#85
of 229 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#89,721
of 264,928 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Progress in Development Studies
#3
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,153,184 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 229 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 264,928 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% 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 3 of them.