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False Hope and Fictitious Patents: Evaluating the Intellectual Property of OxyContin

Overview of attention for article published in Social & Legal Studies, November 2025
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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1 blog
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1 Bluesky user

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1 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
False Hope and Fictitious Patents: Evaluating the Intellectual Property of OxyContin
Published in
Social & Legal Studies, November 2025
DOI 10.1177/09646639251391427
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 1 100%

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Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 1 100%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 1 100%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 12 October 2026.
All research outputs
#6,145,078
of 34,567,073 outputs
Outputs from Social & Legal Studies
#164
of 639 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,621
of 358,775 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social & Legal Studies
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,567,073 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 639 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% 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 358,775 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 84% 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 well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.