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The Rise in Popularity of Cryptocurrency and Associated Criminal Activity

Overview of attention for article published in International Criminal Justice Review, February 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 307)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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1 policy source
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4 X users
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3 Wikipedia pages
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2 Redditors

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431 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Rise in Popularity of Cryptocurrency and Associated Criminal Activity
Published in
International Criminal Justice Review, February 2019
DOI 10.1177/1057567719827051
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 431 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 37 9%
Student > Master 36 8%
Lecturer 24 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 5%
Researcher 17 4%
Other 53 12%
Unknown 242 56%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 46 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 41 10%
Computer Science 34 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 27 6%
Arts and Humanities 7 2%
Other 31 7%
Unknown 245 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 28 August 2026.
All research outputs
#4,778,423
of 33,187,958 outputs
Outputs from International Criminal Justice Review
#41
of 307 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#85,190
of 477,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Criminal Justice Review
#2
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,187,958 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 307 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 477,582 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.