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What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, November 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 (95th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
16 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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42 Dimensions

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95 Mendeley
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Title
What’s New about Whatsapp for News? A Mixed-Method Study on News Outlets’ Strategies for Using WhatsApp
Published in
Digital Journalism, November 2019
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2019.1692685
Authors

Karin Boczek, Lars Koppers

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 95 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 14%
Student > Master 9 9%
Lecturer 7 7%
Researcher 6 6%
Professor 5 5%
Other 20 21%
Unknown 35 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 35%
Arts and Humanities 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Linguistics 3 3%
Unspecified 3 3%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 35 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 October 2021.
All research outputs
#794,793
of 24,287,598 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#62
of 866 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,470
of 465,111 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#6
of 20 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 866 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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