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Youth Sexting: Prevalence Rates, Driving Motivations, and the Deterrent Effect of Legal Consequences

Overview of attention for article published in Sexuality Research and Social Policy, June 2014
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#21 of 925)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
14 news outlets
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
peer_reviews
1 peer review site
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
119 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Youth Sexting: Prevalence Rates, Driving Motivations, and the Deterrent Effect of Legal Consequences
Published in
Sexuality Research and Social Policy, June 2014
DOI 10.1007/s13178-014-0162-9
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Unknown 117 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 18%
Student > Bachelor 21 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 16%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 10%
Professor 5 4%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 25 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 39 33%
Social Sciences 30 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 4%
Computer Science 4 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 3%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 25 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 121. 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 21 August 2025.
All research outputs
#434,393
of 34,286,339 outputs
Outputs from Sexuality Research and Social Policy
#21
of 925 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,076
of 275,284 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sexuality Research and Social Policy
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,286,339 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 925 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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