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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (61st percentile)

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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
A review of the cognitive distortions in child sex offenders: An examination of the motivations and mechanisms that underlie the justification for abuse
Published in
Aggression & Violent Behavior, May 2006
DOI 10.1016/j.avb.2005.08.002
Authors

May F. Burn, Sarah Brown

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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 165 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 2%
Spain 3 2%
Portugal 2 1%
Poland 2 1%
Australia 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 151 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 29 18%
Student > Bachelor 17 10%
Researcher 13 8%
Student > Postgraduate 11 7%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 35 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 99 60%
Social Sciences 17 10%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 <1%
Other 2 1%
Unknown 39 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 11 April 2026.
All research outputs
#10,519,763
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from Aggression & Violent Behavior
#805
of 1,337 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,677
of 123,985 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Aggression & Violent Behavior
#3
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,337 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.7. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 123,985 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 4 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.