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What makes a video go viral? An analysis of emotional contagion and Internet memes

Overview of attention for article published in Computers in Human Behavior, November 2013
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

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8 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
17 X users
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
2 Redditors

Citations

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195 Dimensions

Readers on

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467 Mendeley
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Title
What makes a video go viral? An analysis of emotional contagion and Internet memes
Published in
Computers in Human Behavior, November 2013
DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2013.04.016
Authors

Rosanna E. Guadagno, Daniel M. Rempala, Shannon Murphy, Bradley M. Okdie

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 467 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 5 1%
United States 4 <1%
Brazil 2 <1%
Malaysia 2 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 447 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 92 20%
Student > Bachelor 85 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 82 18%
Researcher 29 6%
Professor 22 5%
Other 81 17%
Unknown 76 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 109 23%
Business, Management and Accounting 62 13%
Psychology 52 11%
Arts and Humanities 41 9%
Computer Science 24 5%
Other 88 19%
Unknown 91 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 98. 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 03 October 2022.
All research outputs
#440,313
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Computers in Human Behavior
#223
of 4,546 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,444
of 230,986 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers in Human Behavior
#2
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 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 4,546 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 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 96% of its contemporaries.