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Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings

Overview of attention for article published in Injury Prevention, December 2006
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Title
Australia’s 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings
Published in
Injury Prevention, December 2006
DOI 10.1136/ip.2006.013714
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Authors

S Chapman, P Alpers, K Agho, M Jones

Abstract

After a 1996 firearm massacre in Tasmania in which 35 people died, Australian governments united to remove semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns and rifles from civilian possession, as a key component of gun law reforms.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
Australia 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 113 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 20%
Student > Bachelor 17 14%
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 8%
Other 22 18%
Unknown 21 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 12%
Psychology 13 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 5%
Other 21 17%
Unknown 30 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2719. 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 16 April 2024.
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#2,686
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Outputs from Injury Prevention
#1
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#1
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#1
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