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The police invention of humanity: Notes on the “thin blue line”

Overview of attention for article published in Crime, Media, Culture, September 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 457)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
twitter
32 X users
wikipedia
8 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
25 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The police invention of humanity: Notes on the “thin blue line”
Published in
Crime, Media, Culture, September 2019
DOI 10.1177/1741659019873757
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 25 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 20%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 12%
Lecturer 2 8%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 5 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 36%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 8%
Philosophy 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 6 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 143. 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 22 July 2026.
All research outputs
#365,931
of 34,377,743 outputs
Outputs from Crime, Media, Culture
#3
of 457 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,104
of 381,400 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime, Media, Culture
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,377,743 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 457 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 381,400 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 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.