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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
The curiosity effect: Information seeking in the contemporary news environment
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|---|---|
| Published in |
New Media & Society, August 2019
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| DOI | 10.1177/1461444819863408 |
| Authors |
Joshua M Scacco, Ashley Muddiman |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 49 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 23 | 47% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 6% |
| Sweden | 3 | 6% |
| Spain | 3 | 6% |
| Comoros | 2 | 4% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 2% |
| Denmark | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 13 | 27% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 30 | 61% |
| Members of the public | 17 | 35% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 70 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 70 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 23% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 11 | 16% |
| Unknown | 21 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 26 | 37% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 7% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 9% |
| Unknown | 22 | 31% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 12 March 2020.
All research outputs
#933,418
of 25,628,260 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#275
of 2,316 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,591
of 357,860 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#5
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,628,260 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,316 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.3. 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 357,860 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 39 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its contemporaries.