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The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms

Overview of attention for article published in The Canadian Journal of Economics, January 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#34 of 1,279)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The spatial sorting and matching of skills and firms
Published in
The Canadian Journal of Economics, January 2009
DOI 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2008.01498.x
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Sweden 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
China 1 1%
Chile 1 1%
Unknown 91 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 22%
Researcher 10 10%
Student > Master 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 6%
Professor 6 6%
Other 23 23%
Unknown 22 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 55 56%
Social Sciences 11 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Mathematics 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 25 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. 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 17 December 2025.
All research outputs
#1,641,109
of 34,360,257 outputs
Outputs from The Canadian Journal of Economics
#34
of 1,279 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,191
of 252,646 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Canadian Journal of Economics
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,257 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,279 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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