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Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence

Overview of attention for article published in Crime Prevention and Community Safety, January 2008
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  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 205)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (75th percentile)

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policy
2 policy sources

Readers on

mendeley
59 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Understanding and Tackling Gang Violence
Published in
Crime Prevention and Community Safety, January 2008
DOI 10.1057/palgrave.cpcs.8150057
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Chile 1 2%
Unknown 57 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 17%
Student > Master 9 15%
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 15 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 47%
Psychology 5 8%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 3%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 15 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 04 February 2026.
All research outputs
#7,295,360
of 33,729,289 outputs
Outputs from Crime Prevention and Community Safety
#44
of 205 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,146
of 222,340 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime Prevention and Community Safety
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,729,289 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 205 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 222,340 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1 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