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Understanding pet scams: A case study of advance fee and non-delivery fraud using victims’ accounts

Overview of attention for article published in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, September 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#15 of 332)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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7 news outlets
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
72 Mendeley
Article details
Title
Understanding pet scams: A case study of advance fee and non-delivery fraud using victims’ accounts
Published in
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology, September 2020
DOI 10.1177/0004865820957077
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 72 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 6%
Other 3 4%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 39 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Computer Science 4 6%
Psychology 3 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 3%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 38 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 03 April 2025.
All research outputs
#896,139
of 28,029,510 outputs
Outputs from Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
#15
of 332 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,374
of 434,629 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,029,510 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 332 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 434,629 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 5 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