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Learning to Need a Gun

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Sociology, January 2018
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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 384)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
21 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
13 X users

Citations

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40 Dimensions

Readers on

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29 Mendeley
Title
Learning to Need a Gun
Published in
Qualitative Sociology, January 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11133-018-9374-2
Authors

Harel Shapira, Samantha J. Simon

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Bachelor 5 17%
Professor 3 10%
Student > Master 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 11 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 28%
Psychology 3 10%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 3%
Mathematics 1 3%
Environmental Science 1 3%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 12 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 173. 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 31 August 2020.
All research outputs
#235,684
of 25,591,967 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Sociology
#5
of 384 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,474
of 450,546 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Sociology
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,591,967 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 384 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 450,546 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them