↓ Skip to main content

The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, November 2007
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 1,437)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
21 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
10 Wikipedia pages
reddit
9 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
173 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units
Published in
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, November 2007
DOI 10.1177/0306624x07309720
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 173 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Canada 2 1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 164 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 35 20%
Student > Master 34 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Researcher 11 6%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 37 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 50 29%
Social Sciences 45 26%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 6%
Neuroscience 7 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 3%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 36 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 153. 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 24 July 2026.
All research outputs
#332,623
of 33,216,068 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
#7
of 1,437 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#523
of 122,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,216,068 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 1,437 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 122,057 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.