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Signals, strongholds, and support: Political party protests in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Politics, July 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (75th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Signals, strongholds, and support: Political party protests in South Africa
Published in
Politics, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/0263395720935029
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 30%
Lecturer 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Professor 1 10%
Student > Postgraduate 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 3 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 40%
Computer Science 1 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 10%
Unknown 4 40%
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 12 August 2020.
All research outputs
#4,979,689
of 28,738,224 outputs
Outputs from Politics
#302
of 707 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#104,513
of 434,015 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Politics
#14
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,738,224 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 707 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% 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 434,015 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 75% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.