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Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media

Overview of attention for article published in Political Behavior, February 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 848)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
36 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
139 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
321 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
564 Mendeley
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Title
Real Solutions for Fake News? Measuring the Effectiveness of General Warnings and Fact-Check Tags in Reducing Belief in False Stories on Social Media
Published in
Political Behavior, February 2019
DOI 10.1007/s11109-019-09533-0
Authors

Katherine Clayton, Spencer Blair, Jonathan A. Busam, Samuel Forstner, John Glance, Guy Green, Anna Kawata, Akhila Kovvuri, Jonathan Martin, Evan Morgan, Morgan Sandhu, Rachel Sang, Rachel Scholz-Bright, Austin T. Welch, Andrew G. Wolff, Amanda Zhou, Brendan Nyhan

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 139 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 564 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 564 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 86 15%
Student > Master 85 15%
Student > Bachelor 56 10%
Researcher 35 6%
Professor 23 4%
Other 105 19%
Unknown 174 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 137 24%
Psychology 67 12%
Computer Science 43 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 36 6%
Arts and Humanities 21 4%
Other 71 13%
Unknown 189 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 400. 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 28 March 2024.
All research outputs
#75,906
of 25,591,967 outputs
Outputs from Political Behavior
#10
of 848 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,563
of 457,543 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Behavior
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,591,967 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 848 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 35.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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