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Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, December 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 (90th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 blog
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12 X users

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Title
Social Media Editors and the Audience Funnel: Tensions between Commercial Pressures and Professional Norms in the Data-Saturated Newsroom
Published in
Digital Journalism, December 2021
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.2004553
Authors

Tai Neilson, Timothy A. Gibson

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 13%
Lecturer 4 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Other 8 20%
Unknown 15 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 28%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 8%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 16 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. 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 January 2022.
All research outputs
#2,078,274
of 23,567,572 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#307
of 836 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#50,890
of 514,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#11
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,567,572 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 836 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% of its contemporaries.