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Ageism, rape myths, and disgust: Australian news media, older women, and sexual violence

Overview of attention for article published in Crime, Media, Culture, July 2026
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#24 of 458)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
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Article details
Title
Ageism, rape myths, and disgust: Australian news media, older women, and sexual violence
Published in
Crime, Media, Culture, July 2026
DOI 10.1177/17416590261468672
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. 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 28 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,041,716
of 34,601,261 outputs
Outputs from Crime, Media, Culture
#24
of 458 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,078
of 345,693 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime, Media, Culture
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,261 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 458 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 345,693 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 6 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them