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The Christchurch mosque shooting, the media, and subsequent gun control reform in New Zealand: a descriptive analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, June 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#36 of 679)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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news
3 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
8 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
4 Redditors

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mendeley
124 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Christchurch mosque shooting, the media, and subsequent gun control reform in New Zealand: a descriptive analysis
Published in
Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, June 2020
DOI 10.1080/13218719.2020.1770635
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 124 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 5%
Other 3 2%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 2%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 86 69%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 12%
Psychology 4 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 2%
Philosophy 2 2%
Other 12 10%
Unknown 85 69%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 19 October 2026.
All research outputs
#1,116,388
of 34,609,551 outputs
Outputs from Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
#36
of 679 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,959
of 463,243 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
#7
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,609,551 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 679 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 463,243 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its contemporaries.