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Income inequality and firearm homicide in the US: a county-level cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Prevention, February 2019
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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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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16 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
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20 X users
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30 Redditors

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Article details
Title
Income inequality and firearm homicide in the US: a county-level cohort study
Published in
Injury Prevention, February 2019
DOI 10.1136/injuryprev-2018-043080
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 16 19%
Student > Bachelor 8 10%
Student > Master 6 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 12 14%
Unknown 33 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 13 15%
Social Sciences 8 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 42 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 153. 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 17 July 2026.
All research outputs
#339,674
of 34,557,610 outputs
Outputs from Injury Prevention
#79
of 2,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,069
of 393,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Injury Prevention
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,557,610 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,511 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 24.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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