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Media suicide-reports, Internet use and the occurrence of suicides between 1987 and 2005 in Japan

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, November 2007
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (74th percentile)

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Title
Media suicide-reports, Internet use and the occurrence of suicides between 1987 and 2005 in Japan
Published in
BMC Public Health, November 2007
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-7-321
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Authors

Akihito Hagihara, Kimio Tarumi, Takeru Abe

Abstract

Previous investigations regarding the effects of suicide reports in the media on suicide incidence in Japan have been limited and inconclusive and, although Internet use has greatly increased, its influence on suicide is completely unknown. Thus, the relationship between newspaper articles about suicide, Internet use, and the incidence of suicide in Japan was examined. A linear model was fitted to time series data from January 1987 to March 2005 (218 months). Consistent with previous findings, the number of newspaper articles about suicide was a predictor of suicide among both male and female subjects. Internet use was also a predictor of suicide among males, probably because males spent more time online than females. Because this is the first, preliminary study examining the association between Internet use and suicide, further research is required to verify the present findings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 2 2%
Mexico 1 1%
Colombia 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 77 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 16%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 7%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 12 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 26%
Psychology 16 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 16%
Arts and Humanities 4 5%
Mathematics 3 4%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 14 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 05 June 2018.
All research outputs
#3,834,927
of 23,047,237 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,263
of 15,014 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,693
of 77,218 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#8
of 31 outputs
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