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Locked and Unloaded: Assessing American Gun Owners’ Safety Training and Use of Secure Firearm Storage Mechanisms

Overview of attention for article published in Crime & Delinquency, June 2026
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Locked and Unloaded: Assessing American Gun Owners’ Safety Training and Use of Secure Firearm Storage Mechanisms
Published in
Crime & Delinquency, June 2026
DOI 10.1177/00111287261458254
Authors

Nathan E. Kruis, Jaeyong Choi, Alexander B. Kinney, Ally Black, Lydia Newman, Madison Adamiak, Nicholas J. Rowland

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 15 September 2026.
All research outputs
#3,776,635
of 34,343,841 outputs
Outputs from Crime & Delinquency
#246
of 1,458 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,809
of 351,431 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime & Delinquency
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,343,841 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,458 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 351,431 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 91% 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