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‘Only in our best interest, right?’ Public perceptions of police use of facial recognition technology

Overview of attention for article published in Police Practice and Research, June 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 676)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
10 X users
podcasts
1 podcast

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mendeley
69 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘Only in our best interest, right?’ Public perceptions of police use of facial recognition technology
Published in
Police Practice and Research, June 2021
DOI 10.1080/15614263.2021.1942873
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 12%
Unspecified 7 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 6%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 38 55%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 12%
Unspecified 7 10%
Psychology 4 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 39 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. 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 18 August 2025.
All research outputs
#899,178
of 32,739,919 outputs
Outputs from Police Practice and Research
#13
of 676 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,588
of 476,619 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Police Practice and Research
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,739,919 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 676 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.2. 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 476,619 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.