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“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, September 2021
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  • In the top 5% 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 (85th percentile)

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Title
“Emotional strip-mining”: Sympathy sockpuppets in online communities
Published in
New Media & Society, September 2021
DOI 10.1177/14614448211040521
Authors

Devon Greyson, Kaitlin L Costello

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 12 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 2 17%
Researcher 1 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 8%
Student > Master 1 8%
Unknown 7 58%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 3 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 8%
Social Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 7 58%
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 06 October 2021.
All research outputs
#1,233,147
of 25,750,437 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#371
of 2,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,835
of 436,233 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#10
of 67 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,750,437 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,324 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 67 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.