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Making Sense of Cents: An Examination of Firms That Marginally Miss or Beat Analyst Forecasts

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Finance, September 2009
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
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Article details
Title
Making Sense of Cents: An Examination of Firms That Marginally Miss or Beat Analyst Forecasts
Published in
Journal of Finance, September 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01503.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
France 3 <1%
China 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 388 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 128 32%
Student > Master 42 11%
Professor 26 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 22 6%
Other 75 19%
Unknown 85 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 179 45%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 91 23%
Social Sciences 16 4%
Unspecified 3 <1%
Mathematics 3 <1%
Other 11 3%
Unknown 97 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 05 August 2025.
All research outputs
#4,982,453
of 34,279,751 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Finance
#1,122
of 3,699 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,720
of 149,522 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Finance
#8
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,279,751 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,699 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 38th percentile – i.e., 38% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.