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Supermarket self-checkouts and retail theft: The curious case of the SWIPERS

Overview of attention for article published in Criminology & Criminal Justice, July 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 647)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
10 news outlets
twitter
36 X users
reddit
3 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

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69 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Supermarket self-checkouts and retail theft: The curious case of the SWIPERS
Published in
Criminology & Criminal Justice, July 2016
DOI 10.1177/1748895816643353
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 16%
Student > Bachelor 9 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 8 12%
Unknown 27 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 17 25%
Computer Science 5 7%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Engineering 4 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 4%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 29 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 110. 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 April 2026.
All research outputs
#489,300
of 34,559,526 outputs
Outputs from Criminology & Criminal Justice
#11
of 647 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,966
of 335,752 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Criminology & Criminal Justice
#2
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,559,526 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 647 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 335,752 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 22 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 90% of its contemporaries.