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The Association Between Gun Ownership and Statewide Overall Suicide Rates

Overview of attention for article published in Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, March 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#42 of 1,570)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
20 X users
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
reddit
25 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
64 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Association Between Gun Ownership and Statewide Overall Suicide Rates
Published in
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, March 2017
DOI 10.1111/sltb.12346
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 64 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Researcher 5 8%
Other 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 13 20%
Unknown 21 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Social Sciences 6 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 25 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. 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 16 August 2026.
All research outputs
#486,186
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
#42
of 1,570 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,825
of 350,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
#2
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,842 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,570 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 350,868 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 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.