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Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Political Economy, April 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#29 of 3,654)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
392 X users
reddit
4 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
4 Bluesky users

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mendeley
218 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Genetic Endowments and Wealth Inequality
Published in
Journal of Political Economy, April 2020
DOI 10.1086/705415
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 218 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 22%
Researcher 24 11%
Student > Master 18 8%
Student > Bachelor 16 7%
Professor 11 5%
Other 39 18%
Unknown 63 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 78 36%
Social Sciences 26 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 4%
Unspecified 4 2%
Other 23 11%
Unknown 68 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 331. 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 18 April 2026.
All research outputs
#127,056
of 34,334,818 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Political Economy
#29
of 3,654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,492
of 426,067 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Political Economy
#1
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,334,818 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,654 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 32 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.