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Who Owns a Handgun? An Analysis of the Correlates of Handgun Ownership in Young Adulthood

Overview of attention for article published in Crime & Delinquency, May 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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
5 X users
reddit
4 Redditors

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mendeley
17 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Who Owns a Handgun? An Analysis of the Correlates of Handgun Ownership in Young Adulthood
Published in
Crime & Delinquency, May 2019
DOI 10.1177/0011128719847457
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 29%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 18%
Student > Master 2 12%
Researcher 2 12%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 41%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 6%
Other 2 12%
Unknown 4 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 19 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,408,486
of 34,359,530 outputs
Outputs from Crime & Delinquency
#81
of 1,458 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,186
of 394,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime & Delinquency
#1
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,359,530 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,458 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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 94% of its contemporaries.