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Measuring investor sentiment with mutual fund flows

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012
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Article details
Title
Measuring investor sentiment with mutual fund flows
Published in
Journal of Financial Economics, May 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.jfineco.2010.08.018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 390 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 115 29%
Student > Master 46 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 26 7%
Professor 22 6%
Researcher 22 6%
Other 71 18%
Unknown 95 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 147 37%
Business, Management and Accounting 122 31%
Social Sciences 5 1%
Computer Science 4 1%
Engineering 2 <1%
Other 12 3%
Unknown 105 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#6,087,087
of 27,778,980 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Financial Economics
#1,185
of 2,722 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,515
of 181,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Financial Economics
#12
of 23 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,722 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one is in the 44th percentile – i.e., 44% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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