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Dangerous Dogs, Dangerous Owners and the Waste Management of an ‘Irredeemable Species’

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology, February 2015
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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 (90th percentile)

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5 news outlets
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12 X users
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1 Facebook page

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46 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Dangerous Dogs, Dangerous Owners and the Waste Management of an ‘Irredeemable Species’
Published in
Sociology, February 2015
DOI 10.1177/0038038514568232
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 15%
Student > Master 5 11%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 7%
Lecturer 2 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 8 17%
Unknown 19 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 22%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 5 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 11%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 20 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 October 2018.
All research outputs
#929,837
of 27,854,867 outputs
Outputs from Sociology
#110
of 1,606 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,495
of 273,000 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology
#4
of 41 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,854,867 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,606 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 41 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 90% of its contemporaries.