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The Impact of Decriminalisation on the Number of Sex Workers in New Zealand

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Social Policy, July 2009
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#46 of 1,000)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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4 news outlets
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9 X users
reddit
6 Redditors

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Article details
Title
The Impact of Decriminalisation on the Number of Sex Workers in New Zealand
Published in
Journal of Social Policy, July 2009
DOI 10.1017/s0047279409003080
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
New Zealand 1 1%
Netherlands 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 79 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 14 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 15%
Student > Master 9 11%
Researcher 9 11%
Other 5 6%
Other 13 15%
Unknown 21 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 42%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 10%
Arts and Humanities 6 7%
Psychology 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 24 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 14 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,200,677
of 34,152,035 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Social Policy
#46
of 1,000 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,214
of 173,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Social Policy
#2
of 8 outputs
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