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Defending the Profession: U.S. Journalists’ Role Understanding in the Era of Fake News

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, April 2021
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (67th percentile)

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Title
Defending the Profession: U.S. Journalists’ Role Understanding in the Era of Fake News
Published in
Journalism Practice, April 2021
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2021.1919177
Authors

Mi Rosie Jahng, Stine Eckert, Jade Metzger-Riftkin

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 26 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 12%
Professor 2 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 8%
Lecturer 1 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 4%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 14 54%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 19%
Arts and Humanities 2 8%
Computer Science 2 8%
Linguistics 1 4%
Engineering 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 15 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 12 November 2021.
All research outputs
#6,622,209
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#729
of 1,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#143,030
of 438,836 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#37
of 48 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,577,654 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,028 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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