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Understanding desistance from sexual offending

Overview of attention for article published in Probation Journal, October 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 475)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
52 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

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65 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Understanding desistance from sexual offending
Published in
Probation Journal, October 2015
DOI 10.1177/0264550515600545
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Germany 1 2%
Canada 1 2%
Unknown 63 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 22%
Student > Bachelor 8 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Other 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 15 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 37%
Psychology 18 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 17 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 10 July 2026.
All research outputs
#659,549
of 34,350,842 outputs
Outputs from Probation Journal
#3
of 475 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,440
of 323,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Probation Journal
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,350,842 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 475 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 323,375 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 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 92% of its contemporaries.