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The dirty work of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Re-reading the dramaturgy of coercion

Overview of attention for article published in Incarceration, July 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 121)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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news
7 news outlets
twitter
9 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
57 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The dirty work of the Stanford Prison Experiment: Re-reading the dramaturgy of coercion
Published in
Incarceration, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/2632666320944316
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 57 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 19%
Researcher 2 4%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 37 65%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 8 14%
Social Sciences 8 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 36 63%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 22 October 2026.
All research outputs
#759,694
of 34,626,533 outputs
Outputs from Incarceration
#3
of 121 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,031
of 459,222 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Incarceration
#1
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,626,533 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 121 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 459,222 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them