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The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as tipping point

Overview of attention for article published in Diaster Health, October 2014
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
11 X users
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

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mendeley
55 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as tipping point
Published in
Diaster Health, October 2014
DOI 10.4161/dish.27113
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 55 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 18%
Student > Master 9 16%
Researcher 5 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 7%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 18 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 22%
Psychology 8 15%
Arts and Humanities 4 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 24 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 74. 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 12 September 2026.
All research outputs
#738,575
of 34,606,677 outputs
Outputs from Diaster Health
#3
of 31 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,433
of 307,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Diaster Health
#2
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,606,677 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 31 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.2. This one scored the same or higher as 28 of them.
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 307,877 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 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.