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Neither clear nor present: The social construction of safety and danger

Overview of attention for article published in Sociological Forum, September 1996
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Title
Neither clear nor present: The social construction of safety and danger
Published in
Sociological Forum, September 1996
DOI 10.1007/bf02408392
Authors

Ruth Simpson

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
New Zealand 1 2%
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 40 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 29%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 14%
Student > Master 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 3 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 52%
Psychology 4 10%
Arts and Humanities 3 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 5 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 11 November 2021.
All research outputs
#6,413,206
of 22,786,087 outputs
Outputs from Sociological Forum
#301
of 764 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,981
of 29,985 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociological Forum
#2
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,786,087 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 764 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 2 of them.