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Fake news and indifference to scientific fact: President Trump’s confused tweets on global warming, climate change and weather

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, July 2018
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Title
Fake news and indifference to scientific fact: President Trump’s confused tweets on global warming, climate change and weather
Published in
Scientometrics, July 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11192-018-2847-y
Authors

David E. Allen, Michael McAleer

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 15 18%
Student > Master 10 12%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Other 22 26%
Unknown 17 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 18%
Computer Science 15 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 5%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 5%
Other 20 24%
Unknown 21 25%
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 06 March 2020.
All research outputs
#7,060,251
of 23,096,849 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#1,226
of 2,699 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#120,700
of 327,048 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#31
of 63 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,096,849 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 2,699 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
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