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Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, April 2019
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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 (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
18 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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35 Dimensions

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99 Mendeley
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Title
Reporting with WhatsApp: Mobile Chat Applications’ Impact on Journalistic Practices
Published in
Digital Journalism, April 2019
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2019.1592693
Authors

Tomás Dodds

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 16%
Researcher 8 8%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Bachelor 8 8%
Professor 5 5%
Other 20 20%
Unknown 34 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 33%
Linguistics 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 4%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 36 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 25 January 2023.
All research outputs
#1,300,235
of 24,468,058 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#151
of 878 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,281
of 356,578 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#8
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,468,058 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 878 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 356,578 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.