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What were they thinking? Factors influencing police recruits’ decisions about force

Overview of attention for article published in Policing and Society, January 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Article details
Title
What were they thinking? Factors influencing police recruits’ decisions about force
Published in
Policing and Society, January 2018
DOI 10.1080/10439463.2018.1432612
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 20%
Student > Master 6 15%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Professor 2 5%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 12 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 34%
Psychology 7 17%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 7%
Engineering 2 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 13 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 15 July 2019.
All research outputs
#3,972,774
of 28,064,094 outputs
Outputs from Policing and Society
#169
of 722 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#77,047
of 456,912 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Policing and Society
#5
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,064,094 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 722 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 456,912 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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 68% of its contemporaries.