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Making a murderer: The importance of gender and violence against women in mass murder events

Overview of attention for article published in Sociology Compass, August 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 1,039)
  • 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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21 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
8 X users

Citations

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20 Dimensions

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51 Mendeley
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Title
Making a murderer: The importance of gender and violence against women in mass murder events
Published in
Sociology Compass, August 2019
DOI 10.1111/soc4.12730
Authors

Alison J. Marganski

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 20%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Student > Master 2 4%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 22 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 24%
Psychology 8 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 22 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 182. 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 14 November 2022.
All research outputs
#220,925
of 25,385,509 outputs
Outputs from Sociology Compass
#9
of 1,039 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,263
of 353,823 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Sociology Compass
#1
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,385,509 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,039 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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.