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Assessing YouTube science news’ credibility: The impact of web-search on the role of video, source, and user attributes

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, February 2020
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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 (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
twitter
33 X users

Citations

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17 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
70 Mendeley
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Title
Assessing YouTube science news’ credibility: The impact of web-search on the role of video, source, and user attributes
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, February 2020
DOI 10.1177/0963662520905466
Pubmed ID
Authors

Amir Michalovich, Arnon Hershkovitz

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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 12 17%
Student > Master 9 13%
Researcher 8 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 26 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 21%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 4%
Computer Science 2 3%
Physics and Astronomy 2 3%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 28 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. 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 21 June 2020.
All research outputs
#1,363,169
of 25,758,695 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#159
of 1,122 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,287
of 385,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#3
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,758,695 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,122 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.6. 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 385,002 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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 72% of its contemporaries.