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Bad News Travels Fastest: A Computational Approach to Predictors of Immediacy in Digital Journalism Ecosystems

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, July 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

Mentioned by

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

Citations

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11 Dimensions

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48 Mendeley
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Title
Bad News Travels Fastest: A Computational Approach to Predictors of Immediacy in Digital Journalism Ecosystems
Published in
Digital Journalism, July 2019
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2019.1631706
Authors

Florian Buhl, Elisabeth Günther, Thorsten Quandt

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 48 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 6 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 13%
Professor 5 10%
Unspecified 4 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Other 16 33%
Unknown 7 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 52%
Unspecified 4 8%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Linguistics 2 4%
Computer Science 2 4%
Other 2 4%
Unknown 10 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 33. 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 22 April 2020.
All research outputs
#1,220,313
of 25,489,496 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#131
of 924 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,131
of 362,828 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#8
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,489,496 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 924 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 362,828 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 21 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 66% of its contemporaries.