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How Many People Are Exposed to Suicide? Not Six

Overview of attention for article published in Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#1 of 1,575)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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news
159 news outlets
blogs
9 blogs
policy
12 policy sources
twitter
185 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
3 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
375 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
How Many People Are Exposed to Suicide? Not Six
Published in
Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior, March 2018
DOI 10.1111/sltb.12450
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 375 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 12%
Student > Master 45 12%
Researcher 36 10%
Student > Bachelor 24 6%
Other 18 5%
Other 45 12%
Unknown 162 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 105 28%
Medicine and Dentistry 28 7%
Social Sciences 22 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Other 23 6%
Unknown 173 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1473. 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 02 June 2026.
All research outputs
#9,953
of 34,562,876 outputs
Outputs from Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
#1
of 1,575 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#157
of 377,032 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Suicide & Life-Threatening Behavior
#1
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,562,876 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 1,575 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 27 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 96% of its contemporaries.