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Some Facts About “Weapon Focus”

Overview of attention for article published in Law and Human Behavior, January 1987
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 1,047)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

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6 news outlets
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1 X user
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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404 Dimensions

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383 Mendeley
Title
Some Facts About “Weapon Focus”
Published in
Law and Human Behavior, January 1987
DOI 10.1007/bf01044839
Authors

Elizabeth F. Loftus, Geoffrey R. Loftus, Jane Messo

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 8 2%
United States 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Unknown 369 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 126 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 12%
Student > Master 39 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 7%
Student > Postgraduate 23 6%
Other 60 16%
Unknown 65 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 245 64%
Neuroscience 19 5%
Social Sciences 18 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 1%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 1%
Other 16 4%
Unknown 76 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 13 April 2023.
All research outputs
#786,215
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Law and Human Behavior
#44
of 1,047 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#139
of 44,801 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Law and Human Behavior
#1
of 8 outputs
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