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A new approach to cut death toll of young people in road accidents

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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Title
A new approach to cut death toll of young people in road accidents
Published by
The Conversation, April 2014
DOI 10.64628/aa.4hy97t37w
Authors

Scott-Parker, Bridie, Bridie Scott-Parker

Abstract

Too often in Australia we hear tragic stories of another young life cut short in a car accident and yet any attempts to dramatically reduce the death toll are not working. Young male drivers are our hardest…

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. 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 27 January 2022.
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#670,974
of 32,023,687 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#80,540
of 200,313 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,060
of 262,426 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#74
of 846 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,023,687 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 200,313 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 100.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its peers.
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