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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 (#2 of 371)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
twitter
47 X users
wikipedia
7 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
36 Dimensions

Readers on

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

Tyler Wall

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 18 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 28%
Student > Master 4 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 17%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Lecturer 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 2 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 50%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 11%
Philosophy 1 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Environmental Science 1 6%
Other 2 11%
Unknown 2 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 112. 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 07 November 2023.
All research outputs
#373,401
of 25,385,509 outputs
Outputs from Crime, Media, Culture
#2
of 371 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,857
of 352,676 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Crime, Media, Culture
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,385,509 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 371 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. 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 352,676 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.