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Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime

Overview of attention for article published in Economic Journal, November 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 3,766)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

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news
37 news outlets
blogs
10 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
778 X users
facebook
19 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
5 Google+ users
reddit
75 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
podcasts
3 podcasts

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mendeley
161 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organisations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime
Published in
Economic Journal, November 2017
DOI 10.1111/ecoj.12521
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 161 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 25 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 11%
Student > Bachelor 17 11%
Researcher 9 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 5%
Other 34 21%
Unknown 50 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 19%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 28 17%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 6 4%
Psychology 5 3%
Other 26 16%
Unknown 59 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 999. 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 19 August 2026.
All research outputs
#20,370
of 34,372,222 outputs
Outputs from Economic Journal
#2
of 3,766 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#268
of 347,256 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Economic Journal
#1
of 68 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,372,222 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,766 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 68 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its contemporaries.