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Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments

Overview of attention for article published in Urban Studies, October 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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11 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

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121 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Desire lines and defensive architecture in modern urban environments
Published in
Urban Studies, October 2017
DOI 10.1177/0042098017732690
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 121 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 16%
Student > Bachelor 14 12%
Researcher 9 7%
Lecturer 5 4%
Other 18 15%
Unknown 36 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 21%
Design 15 12%
Arts and Humanities 8 7%
Environmental Science 6 5%
Engineering 5 4%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 40 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. 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 26 August 2026.
All research outputs
#885,040
of 32,240,582 outputs
Outputs from Urban Studies
#98
of 3,719 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,259
of 359,688 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Urban Studies
#3
of 53 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,240,582 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,719 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 359,688 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 53 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 94% of its contemporaries.