↓ Skip to main content

Gun violence incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic is higher than before the pandemic in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in Scientific Reports, October 2021
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
88 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
31 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
4 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
60 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Gun violence incidence during the COVID-19 pandemic is higher than before the pandemic in the United States
Published in
Scientific Reports, October 2021
DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-98813-z
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 31 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 60 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Student > Master 4 7%
Researcher 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 30 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 6 10%
Social Sciences 5 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 35 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 754. 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 21 October 2025.
All research outputs
#33,112
of 34,606,677 outputs
Outputs from Scientific Reports
#518
of 184,935 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#914
of 472,344 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientific Reports
#16
of 4,039 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,606,677 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 184,935 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.3. 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 472,344 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.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4,039 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 99% of its contemporaries.