Report for: The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016

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Title	The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016
Published in	American Sociological Review, October 2017
DOI	10.1177/0003122417735742
Authors	Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman, Charles Rahal, Magne Flemmen

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	287	48%
United States	20	3%
Canada	7	1%
Germany	6	1%
Ireland	6	1%
Australia	6	1%
Denmark	5	<1%
France	5	<1%
Comoros	4	<1%
Other	34	6%
Unknown	219	37%

Demographic breakdown

Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	419	70%
Scientists	141	24%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	25	4%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	14	2%

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Geographical breakdown

Country	Count	As %
Unknown	151	100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	40	26%
Student > Bachelor	22	15%
Student > Master	15	10%
Researcher	14	9%
Student > Doctoral Student	9	6%
Other	20	13%
Unknown	31	21%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Social Sciences	80	53%
Business, Management and Accounting	13	9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance	6	4%
Psychology	5	3%
Arts and Humanities	4	3%
Other	7	5%
Unknown	36	24%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 486. 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 09 April 2023.

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#23

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#1,069

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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,845 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.

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The Decline and Persistence of the Old Boy: Private Schools and Elite Recruitment 1897 to 2016

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