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How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay

Overview of attention for article published in Comparative Political Studies, March 2020
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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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (89th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
54 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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59 Dimensions

Readers on

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90 Mendeley
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Title
How Dictators Control the Internet: A Review Essay
Published in
Comparative Political Studies, March 2020
DOI 10.1177/0010414020912278
Authors

Eda Keremoğlu, Nils B. Weidmann

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 90 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 20%
Student > Bachelor 12 13%
Researcher 8 9%
Student > Master 8 9%
Lecturer 5 6%
Other 16 18%
Unknown 23 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 50 56%
Arts and Humanities 3 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 5 6%
Unknown 27 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 68. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#639,791
of 25,757,133 outputs
Outputs from Comparative Political Studies
#75
of 1,275 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,655
of 393,717 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Comparative Political Studies
#2
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,757,133 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,275 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 393,717 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 19 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.