↓ Skip to main content

Why Media Systems Matter: A Fact-Checking Study of UK Television News during the Coronavirus Pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, September 2021
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#41 of 898)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
4 news outlets
twitter
49 X users

Citations

dimensions_citation
14 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
45 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Why Media Systems Matter: A Fact-Checking Study of UK Television News during the Coronavirus Pandemic
Published in
Digital Journalism, September 2021
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.1965490
Authors

Stephen Cushion, Marina Morani, Maria Kyriakidou, Nikki Soo

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 49 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 45 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 13%
Unspecified 4 9%
Student > Master 4 9%
Researcher 3 7%
Other 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 20 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 33%
Unspecified 4 9%
Psychology 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 22 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 28 March 2023.
All research outputs
#642,984
of 25,010,497 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#41
of 898 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,345
of 422,857 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#4
of 56 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,010,497 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 898 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 422,857 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 56 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.