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“Splendid Isolation”: The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify’s recommendation system

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, July 2021
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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 (81st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (62nd percentile)

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Title
“Splendid Isolation”: The reproduction of music industry inequalities in Spotify’s recommendation system
Published in
New Media & Society, July 2021
DOI 10.1177/14614448211022161
Authors

Tamas Tofalvy, Júlia Koltai

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 13%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 24 60%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 18%
Arts and Humanities 3 8%
Computer Science 3 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 23 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 30 January 2024.
All research outputs
#3,585,503
of 25,284,710 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#925
of 2,260 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#80,266
of 432,873 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#34
of 87 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,284,710 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,260 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 58% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 87 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 62% of its contemporaries.