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Politics on the Web: Using Twitter to Estimate the Ideological Positions of Brazilian Representatives*

Overview of attention for article published in Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), November 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 217)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)

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6 X users
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4 Wikipedia pages

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Article details
Title
Politics on the Web: Using Twitter to Estimate the Ideological Positions of Brazilian Representatives*
Published in
Brazilian Political Science Review (Online), November 2017
DOI 10.1590/1981-3821201700030003
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 30 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Lecturer 2 7%
Other 7 23%
Unknown 5 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 57%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 5 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 03 October 2026.
All research outputs
#6,103,625
of 34,536,218 outputs
Outputs from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online)
#36
of 217 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#76,462
of 371,724 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Brazilian Political Science Review (Online)
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,536,218 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 217 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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