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The Colour of a Free Ride

Overview of attention for article published in Economic Journal, September 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 3,762)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
16 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
431 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
35 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Colour of a Free Ride
Published in
Economic Journal, September 2020
DOI 10.1093/ej/ueaa090
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 14%
Researcher 5 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Professor 2 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 6%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 17 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 26%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 14%
Social Sciences 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 16 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 446. 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 18 May 2026.
All research outputs
#79,640
of 34,332,182 outputs
Outputs from Economic Journal
#10
of 3,762 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,188
of 454,708 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Economic Journal
#1
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,332,182 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,762 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 454,708 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 29 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.