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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Bundling occupational safety with harm reduction information as a feasible method for improving police receptiveness to syringe access programs: evidence from three U.S. cities
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| Published in |
Harm Reduction Journal, July 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1477-7517-6-16 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Corey S Davis, Leo Beletsky |
| Abstract |
In light of overwhelming evidence that access to sterile injection equipment reduces incidence of injection-attributable bloodborne disease without encouraging drug use, many localities have authorized sterile syringe access programs (SAPs), including syringe exchange and pharmacy-based initiatives. Even where such interventions are clearly legal, many law enforcement officers are unaware of the public health benefits and legal status of these programs and may continue to treat the possession of injection equipment as illegal and program participation as a marker of illegal behavior. Law enforcement practice can impede SAP utilization and may increase the risk of needlestick injury (NSI) among law enforcement personnel. Many SAPs conduct little or no outreach to law enforcement, in part because they perceive law enforcement actors as unreceptive to health-promotion programs targeting drug users. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 52 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 52 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 12 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 10 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 14 | 27% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 10% |
| Psychology | 5 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 5 | 10% |
| Unknown | 13 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 01 January 2020.
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#5,446,629
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#653
of 1,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,926
of 122,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#5
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.8. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 53% of its contemporaries.