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To test or not to test: do workplace drug testing programs discourage employee drug use?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Science Research, March 2004
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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 (87th percentile)

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3 policy sources
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4 Redditors

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50 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
To test or not to test: do workplace drug testing programs discourage employee drug use?
Published in
Social Science Research, March 2004
DOI 10.1016/s0049-089x(03)00038-3
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 6%
Malaysia 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 45 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 22%
Student > Master 9 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 8%
Professor 3 6%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 9 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 24%
Social Sciences 7 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Philosophy 2 4%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 10 20%
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 06 May 2026.
All research outputs
#4,360,341
of 32,960,374 outputs
Outputs from Social Science Research
#520
of 1,683 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,533
of 83,154 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Science Research
#3
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,960,374 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,683 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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