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They Might Be a Liar But They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation

Overview of attention for article published in Political Psychology, April 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 (#8 of 1,226)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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53 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
twitter
142 X users

Citations

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83 Dimensions

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120 Mendeley
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Title
They Might Be a Liar But They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation
Published in
Political Psychology, April 2019
DOI 10.1111/pops.12586
Authors

Briony Swire‐Thompson, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Stephan Lewandowsky, Adam J. Berinsky

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 120 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 19%
Student > Master 19 16%
Researcher 12 10%
Professor 6 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 4%
Other 24 20%
Unknown 31 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 41 34%
Psychology 27 23%
Computer Science 3 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Philosophy 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 37 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 533. 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 01 June 2023.
All research outputs
#46,986
of 25,595,500 outputs
Outputs from Political Psychology
#8
of 1,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#937
of 366,804 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Psychology
#2
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,595,500 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 1,226 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.