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Domestic mercy killings in England and Wales 2007–2024

Overview of attention for article published in The Journal of Criminal Law, October 2026
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#24 of 326)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)

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Title
Domestic mercy killings in England and Wales 2007–2024
Published in
The Journal of Criminal Law, October 2026
DOI 10.1177/00220183261475814
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 03 November 2026.
All research outputs
#2,214,482
of 34,846,597 outputs
Outputs from The Journal of Criminal Law
#24
of 326 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,922
of 284,955 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Journal of Criminal Law
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,846,597 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 326 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 284,955 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 2 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