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Commentary: Sex work is here to stay and decriminalisation improves safety and social justice

Overview of attention for article published in British Medical Journal, June 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
twitter
115 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
23 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Commentary: Sex work is here to stay and decriminalisation improves safety and social justice
Published in
British Medical Journal, June 2018
DOI 10.1136/bmj.k2687
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 22%
Student > Bachelor 3 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 13%
Other 2 9%
Researcher 2 9%
Other 4 17%
Unknown 4 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 13%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 5 22%
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 07 December 2025.
All research outputs
#428,384
of 34,586,309 outputs
Outputs from British Medical Journal
#4,346
of 75,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,201
of 373,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age from British Medical Journal
#79
of 787 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,586,309 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 75,877 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 373,238 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 787 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.