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Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, 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 (82nd percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source

Citations

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16 Dimensions

Readers on

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35 Mendeley
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Title
Social media news deserts: Digital inequalities and incidental news exposure on social media platforms
Published in
New Media & Society, November 2021
DOI 10.1177/14614448211059529
Authors

Matthew Barnidge, Michael A Xenos

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 35 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 35 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Other 2 6%
Student > Bachelor 2 6%
Student > Postgraduate 2 6%
Researcher 2 6%
Other 5 14%
Unknown 16 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 31%
Arts and Humanities 3 9%
Unspecified 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 16 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 02 August 2022.
All research outputs
#3,775,754
of 23,006,268 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#931
of 2,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#88,884
of 504,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#22
of 43 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,006,268 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,062 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% 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 504,944 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
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 is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.