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Threat perceptions and the intention to acquire firearms

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Psychiatric Research, December 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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12 news outlets
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3 blogs
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9 X users
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2 Redditors

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57 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Threat perceptions and the intention to acquire firearms
Published in
Journal of Psychiatric Research, December 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.12.033
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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 6 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Student > Master 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Researcher 4 7%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 25 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Other 7 12%
Unknown 27 47%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 101. 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 30 November 2023.
All research outputs
#526,700
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Psychiatric Research
#128
of 4,787 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,287
of 567,748 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Psychiatric Research
#7
of 119 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 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 4,787 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. 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 567,748 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 119 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 94% of its contemporaries.