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Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Economics, September 2009
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
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8 policy sources
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Article details
Title
Are foreign investors attracted to weak environmental regulations? Evaluating the evidence from China
Published in
Journal of Development Economics, September 2009
DOI 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2008.11.007
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
China 2 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 324 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 16%
Student > Master 47 14%
Researcher 30 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 6%
Student > Bachelor 19 6%
Other 56 17%
Unknown 106 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 113 34%
Business, Management and Accounting 36 11%
Social Sciences 18 5%
Environmental Science 13 4%
Engineering 8 2%
Other 22 7%
Unknown 124 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 39. 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 11 December 2025.
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#1,267,161
of 32,106,825 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Economics
#270
of 2,850 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,331
of 134,087 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Economics
#2
of 12 outputs
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