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Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Perspectives, December 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 (72nd percentile)

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3 news outlets
twitter
16 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
7 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Who Pays for the Welfare State? Austerity Politics and the Origin of Pay-to-Stay Fees as Revenue Generation
Published in
Sociological Perspectives, December 2020
DOI 10.1177/0731121420967037
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 7 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 29%
Unknown 3 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 3 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 14%
Unknown 2 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 41. 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 01 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,287,907
of 34,452,566 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Perspectives
#54
of 628 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,391
of 569,617 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Perspectives
#3
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,452,566 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 628 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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 72% of its contemporaries.