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‘Horrible and Execrable Murthour’: Spousal Homicide in Seventeenth-Century Scotland

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Family History, September 2026
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 369)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)

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Article details
Title
‘Horrible and Execrable Murthour’: Spousal Homicide in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Published in
Journal of Family History, September 2026
DOI 10.1177/03631990261487978
Authors

Allan Kennedy

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 30 September 2026.
All research outputs
#4,900,214
of 34,436,843 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Family History
#36
of 369 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,025
of 218,814 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Family History
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,436,843 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 369 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 218,814 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 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