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False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases

Overview of attention for article published in Violence Against Women, December 2010
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 2,108)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases
Published in
Violence Against Women, December 2010
DOI 10.1177/1077801210387747
Pubmed ID
Authors

David Lisak, Lori Gardinier, Sarah C. Nicksa, Ashley M. Cote

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 281 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 47 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 13%
Student > Master 28 10%
Researcher 25 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 8%
Other 59 21%
Unknown 66 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 77 27%
Social Sciences 66 23%
Arts and Humanities 19 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 2%
Other 40 14%
Unknown 69 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2495. 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 01 October 2026.
All research outputs
#3,554
of 34,452,566 outputs
Outputs from Violence Against Women
#1
of 2,108 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8
of 253,880 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Violence Against Women
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,452,566 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 2,108 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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