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Social Media Followership as a Predictor of News Website Traffic

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, June 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 (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
13 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

dimensions_citation
4 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
28 Mendeley
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Title
Social Media Followership as a Predictor of News Website Traffic
Published in
Journalism Practice, June 2019
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2019.1635040
Authors

Ioannis Angelou, Vasileios Katsaras, Dimitris Kourkouridis, Andreas Veglis

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 13 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 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 21%
Researcher 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 3 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Professor 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 6 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 36%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 7%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Mathematics 1 4%
Other 3 11%
Unknown 9 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 07 March 2024.
All research outputs
#1,629,768
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#130
of 1,155 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,401
of 369,493 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#5
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,155 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 369,493 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.