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From Rallies to Riots: Why Some Protests Become Violent

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Conflict Resolution, November 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#37 of 1,541)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
14 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
9 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
90 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
From Rallies to Riots: Why Some Protests Become Violent
Published in
Journal of Conflict Resolution, November 2019
DOI 10.1177/0022002719887491
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 24%
Student > Bachelor 12 13%
Student > Master 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Professor 5 6%
Other 11 12%
Unknown 25 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 50%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 6%
Psychology 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 27 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 145. 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 24 July 2025.
All research outputs
#349,899
of 33,022,911 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Conflict Resolution
#37
of 1,541 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,727
of 513,942 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Conflict Resolution
#1
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,022,911 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 1,541 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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