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The Making of Violent Extremists

Overview of attention for article published in Review of General Psychology, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#21 of 537)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

Mentioned by

news
21 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
11 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
259 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
The Making of Violent Extremists
Published in
Review of General Psychology, March 2018
DOI 10.1037/gpr0000144
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 259 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 12%
Student > Master 30 12%
Researcher 28 11%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Lecturer 16 6%
Other 42 16%
Unknown 87 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 73 28%
Social Sciences 54 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 2%
Arts and Humanities 5 2%
Computer Science 4 2%
Other 18 7%
Unknown 100 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 192. 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 18 September 2026.
All research outputs
#261,174
of 34,351,737 outputs
Outputs from Review of General Psychology
#21
of 537 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,811
of 373,487 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of General Psychology
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,351,737 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 537 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 32.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 373,487 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.