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The effect of random alcohol screening in reducing motor vehicle crash injuries

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, January 1999
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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8 policy sources
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
The effect of random alcohol screening in reducing motor vehicle crash injuries
Published in
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, January 1999
DOI 10.1016/s0749-3797(98)00116-0
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Brazil 1 2%
Unknown 59 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 18%
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Postgraduate 6 10%
Other 5 8%
Other 12 19%
Unknown 10 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 34%
Psychology 8 13%
Social Sciences 6 10%
Engineering 4 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 13 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 03 November 2025.
All research outputs
#1,691,058
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Preventive Medicine
#1,240
of 5,783 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,815
of 148,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Preventive Medicine
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,332,113 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,783 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% 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 148,375 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 23 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 91% of its contemporaries.