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The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time

Overview of attention for article published in Social Science Research, March 2007
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (81st percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 blog
policy
1 policy source

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Article details
Title
The importance of being “other”: A natural experiment about lived race over time
Published in
Social Science Research, March 2007
DOI 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2005.11.002
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 8%
Unknown 34 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 22%
Other 6 16%
Student > Master 5 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Professor 3 8%
Other 7 19%
Unknown 5 14%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 20 54%
Psychology 5 14%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 7 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 27 September 2019.
All research outputs
#4,973,666
of 28,809,062 outputs
Outputs from Social Science Research
#543
of 1,521 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,328
of 102,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Science Research
#6
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,809,062 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,521 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 45th percentile – i.e., 45% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.