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“I Decided to Save Them”: Factors That Shaped Participation in Rescue Efforts during Genocide in Rwanda

Overview of attention for article published in Social Forces, March 2018
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

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news
16 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
3 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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24 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“I Decided to Save Them”: Factors That Shaped Participation in Rescue Efforts during Genocide in Rwanda
Published in
Social Forces, March 2018
DOI 10.1093/sf/soy018
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 17%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 8%
Other 1 4%
Lecturer 1 4%
Other 3 13%
Unknown 10 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 17%
Psychology 3 13%
Arts and Humanities 2 8%
Chemical Engineering 1 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 11 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 124. 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 12 March 2026.
All research outputs
#405,703
of 32,097,703 outputs
Outputs from Social Forces
#82
of 2,816 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,406
of 362,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Forces
#3
of 29 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,097,703 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 2,816 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 29 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.