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The R-Squared: Some Straight Talk

Overview of attention for article published in Political Analysis, January 2017
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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 (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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13 X users
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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
The R-Squared: Some Straight Talk
Published in
Political Analysis, January 2017
DOI 10.1093/pan/2.1.153
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
United Kingdom 2 2%
Russia 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Unknown 119 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 23%
Student > Master 10 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Student > Bachelor 8 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 4%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 49 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 7%
Computer Science 5 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 16 13%
Unknown 54 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 16 July 2023.
All research outputs
#3,458,603
of 32,515,534 outputs
Outputs from Political Analysis
#189
of 657 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#53,623
of 450,120 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Analysis
#76
of 291 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,515,534 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 657 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 450,120 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 291 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.