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Epistemic Overconfidence in Algorithmic News Selection

Overview of attention for article published in Media and Communication, November 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 (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Epistemic Overconfidence in Algorithmic News Selection
Published in
Media and Communication, November 2021
DOI 10.17645/mac.v9i4.4167
Authors

Mariken van der Velden, Felicia Loecherbach

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 19 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 3 16%
Lecturer 2 11%
Unspecified 2 11%
Student > Master 2 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Other 3 16%
Unknown 6 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 32%
Arts and Humanities 2 11%
Unspecified 2 11%
Linguistics 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 6 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 01 December 2021.
All research outputs
#2,725,747
of 23,308,124 outputs
Outputs from Media and Communication
#111
of 530 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#65,749
of 510,500 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media and Communication
#6
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,308,124 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 530 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.