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Jesus Comes to South Africa: Black Twitter as Citizen Journalism in South African Politics

Overview of attention for article published in African Journalism Studies, July 2019
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#49 of 181)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (79th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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1 blog
twitter
4 X users

Citations

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36 Mendeley
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Title
Jesus Comes to South Africa: Black Twitter as Citizen Journalism in South African Politics
Published in
African Journalism Studies, July 2019
DOI 10.1080/23743670.2019.1610782
Authors

Shepherd Mpofu

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 11%
Professor 2 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Librarian 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 23 64%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 19%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Linguistics 1 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Other 2 6%
Unknown 23 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 26 October 2022.
All research outputs
#3,702,564
of 25,497,142 outputs
Outputs from African Journalism Studies
#49
of 181 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#73,163
of 362,394 outputs
Outputs of similar age from African Journalism Studies
#6
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,497,142 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 181 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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