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Is there a causal association between suicide rates and the political leanings of government?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1978), October 2002
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (76th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Is there a causal association between suicide rates and the political leanings of government?
Published in
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1978), October 2002
DOI 10.1136/jech.56.10.722
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 28%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Bachelor 2 11%
Student > Master 2 11%
Other 1 6%
Other 3 17%
Unknown 3 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 39%
Psychology 3 17%
Social Sciences 3 17%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 11%
Mathematics 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 2 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 23 June 2026.
All research outputs
#7,299,948
of 34,360,889 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1978)
#2,309
of 5,074 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,573
of 71,740 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (1978)
#11
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,360,889 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,074 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% 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 71,740 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 33 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its contemporaries.