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Persistent Sexual Abusers in the Catholic Church

Overview of attention for article published in Criminal Justice and Behavior, May 2008
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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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
twitter
1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
33 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Persistent Sexual Abusers in the Catholic Church
Published in
Criminal Justice and Behavior, May 2008
DOI 10.1177/0093854808314389
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 33 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 18%
Student > Bachelor 4 12%
Researcher 4 12%
Student > Master 3 9%
Other 2 6%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 10 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 16 48%
Social Sciences 3 9%
Arts and Humanities 2 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Energy 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 8 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 13 September 2026.
All research outputs
#2,405,506
of 34,335,254 outputs
Outputs from Criminal Justice and Behavior
#121
of 1,410 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,235
of 129,760 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Criminal Justice and Behavior
#6
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,335,254 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,410 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 129,760 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.