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Precarious Politics and Return Volatility

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Financial Studies, October 2011
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 2,249)
  • 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)

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news
39 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources

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mendeley
328 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Precarious Politics and Return Volatility
Published in
Review of Financial Studies, October 2011
DOI 10.1093/rfs/hhr100
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 323 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 80 24%
Student > Master 28 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 17 5%
Researcher 16 5%
Other 61 19%
Unknown 106 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 97 30%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 95 29%
Social Sciences 10 3%
Psychology 2 <1%
Environmental Science 1 <1%
Other 7 2%
Unknown 116 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 323. 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 11 June 2025.
All research outputs
#132,044
of 34,601,305 outputs
Outputs from Review of Financial Studies
#5
of 2,249 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#406
of 189,315 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Financial Studies
#1
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,305 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 2,249 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 28 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.