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Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, 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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
27 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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118 Mendeley
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Title
Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries
Published in
Digital Journalism, July 2021
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.1943481
Authors

Peter Van Aelst, Fanni Toth, Laia Castro, Václav Štětka, Claes de Vreese, Toril Aalberg, Ana Sofia Cardenal, Nicoleta Corbu, Frank Esser, David Nicolas Hopmann, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Jörg Matthes, Christian Schemer, Tamir Sheafer, Sergio Splendore, James Stanyer, Agnieszka Stępińska, Jesper Strömbäck, Yannis Theocharis

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 118 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 15%
Student > Master 12 10%
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 7%
Researcher 8 7%
Other 24 20%
Unknown 38 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 38%
Arts and Humanities 5 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 4%
Psychology 5 4%
Linguistics 3 3%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 44 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 25 February 2022.
All research outputs
#1,216,229
of 25,837,817 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#125
of 937 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,634
of 448,496 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#7
of 43 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 937 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 43 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.