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Income inequality and mass shootings in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, September 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
49 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
67 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
60 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Income inequality and mass shootings in the United States
Published in
BMC Public Health, September 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12889-019-7490-x
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Researcher 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Student > Master 3 5%
Other 11 18%
Unknown 27 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 15%
Psychology 6 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 5%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 29 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 102. 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 02 March 2026.
All research outputs
#521,974
of 34,304,404 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#541
of 21,053 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,688
of 385,078 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#11
of 288 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,304,404 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 21,053 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 288 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 96% of its contemporaries.