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Is Imprisonment Criminogenic?

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Criminology, October 2009
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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 678)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

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news
21 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
5 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
3 Redditors

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104 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is Imprisonment Criminogenic?
Published in
European Journal of Criminology, October 2009
DOI 10.1177/1477370809341128
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Portugal 2 2%
United States 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 99 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 25%
Student > Bachelor 15 14%
Student > Master 15 14%
Researcher 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 17 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 55 53%
Psychology 22 21%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Computer Science 2 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 <1%
Other 2 2%
Unknown 18 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 188. 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 08 September 2026.
All research outputs
#265,102
of 34,305,561 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Criminology
#5
of 678 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#567
of 149,971 outputs
Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Criminology
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,305,561 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 678 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 149,971 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 99% of its contemporaries.
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