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When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology Compass, January 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 1,044)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
62 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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158 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
149 Mendeley
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Title
When “model minorities” become “yellow peril”—Othering and the racialization of Asian Americans in the COVID‐19 pandemic
Published in
Sociology Compass, January 2021
DOI 10.1111/soc4.12849
Pubmed ID
Authors

Yao Li, Harvey L. Nicholson

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 149 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 15%
Student > Bachelor 20 13%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 10%
Researcher 7 5%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 51 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 46 31%
Psychology 22 15%
Arts and Humanities 7 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 3%
Linguistics 5 3%
Other 11 7%
Unknown 53 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. 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 21 February 2024.
All research outputs
#471,954
of 25,578,098 outputs
Outputs from Sociology Compass
#33
of 1,044 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,676
of 526,862 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology Compass
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,578,098 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,044 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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