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The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime

Overview of attention for article published in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, June 2023
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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 2,620)
  • 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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news
48 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
13 X users
reddit
18 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
6 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Effect of Permissive Gun Laws on Crime
Published in
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, June 2023
DOI 10.1177/00027162231164865
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 17%
Unknown 3 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 17%
Social Sciences 1 17%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 17%
Unknown 3 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 336. 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 19 October 2026.
All research outputs
#124,861
of 34,606,677 outputs
Outputs from The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
#13
of 2,620 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,484
of 412,309 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
#1
of 14 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 2,620 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. 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 412,309 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 14 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 92% of its contemporaries.