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Spreading the Good News: Analyzing Socially Shared Inspirational News Content

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, December 2018
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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 (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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1 blog
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13 X users

Citations

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45 Mendeley
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Title
Spreading the Good News: Analyzing Socially Shared Inspirational News Content
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, December 2018
DOI 10.1177/1077699018813096
Authors

Qihao Ji, Arthur A. Raney, Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles, Katherine R. Dale, Mary Beth Oliver, Abigail Reed, Jonmichael Seibert, Arthur A. Raney

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 45 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 45 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 13%
Student > Master 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Other 9 20%
Unknown 12 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 38%
Arts and Humanities 5 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 9%
Psychology 4 9%
Computer Science 2 4%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 12 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 24 January 2020.
All research outputs
#2,198,905
of 23,476,369 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#154
of 942 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,810
of 439,459 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#7
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,476,369 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 942 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% 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 439,459 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 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.