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Digital watchdogs? Data reporting and the news media’s traditional ‘fourth estate’ function

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, July 2015
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2 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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110 Mendeley
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Title
Digital watchdogs? Data reporting and the news media’s traditional ‘fourth estate’ function
Published in
Journalism, July 2015
DOI 10.1177/1464884915593246
Authors

Tom Felle

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Poland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 107 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 13%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Researcher 7 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Other 28 25%
Unknown 29 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 41%
Arts and Humanities 17 15%
Computer Science 9 8%
Unspecified 3 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 2%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 30 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 23 December 2023.
All research outputs
#8,059,753
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#1,039
of 1,436 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#85,947
of 279,517 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#5
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 68th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,436 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one is in the 26th percentile – i.e., 26% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 279,517 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.