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Memes as snapshots of participation: The role of digital amateur activists in authoritarian regimes

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, March 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 (84th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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17 X users
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1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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Title
Memes as snapshots of participation: The role of digital amateur activists in authoritarian regimes
Published in
New Media & Society, March 2020
DOI 10.1177/1461444820912722
Authors

Cristina Moreno-Almeida

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 10 12%
Student > Bachelor 9 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 10%
Lecturer 7 9%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 9 11%
Unknown 33 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 25 31%
Arts and Humanities 10 12%
Linguistics 7 9%
Psychology 4 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 33 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 06 March 2024.
All research outputs
#2,622,969
of 25,714,183 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#727
of 2,320 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#61,481
of 392,136 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#13
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,714,183 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,320 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 38 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 60% of its contemporaries.