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Entry through the narrow door: The costs of just failing high stakes exams

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Public Economics, October 2020
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (69th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
23 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
90 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Entry through the narrow door: The costs of just failing high stakes exams
Published in
Journal of Public Economics, October 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104224
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 17%
Researcher 9 10%
Student > Master 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Professor 6 7%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 32 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 19 21%
Social Sciences 15 17%
Psychology 7 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Chemistry 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 35 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 24 April 2026.
All research outputs
#1,039,641
of 34,277,148 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Public Economics
#344
of 3,802 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,019
of 465,077 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Public Economics
#16
of 53 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,277,148 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,802 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 465,077 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 53 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 69% of its contemporaries.