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Faking Alternative Journalism? An Analysis of Self-Presentations of “Fake News” Sites

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, March 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (77th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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31 Dimensions

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53 Mendeley
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Title
Faking Alternative Journalism? An Analysis of Self-Presentations of “Fake News” Sites
Published in
Digital Journalism, March 2020
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2020.1743193
Authors

Craig T. Robertson, Rachel R. Mourão

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 53 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 15%
Professor 7 13%
Unspecified 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Researcher 4 8%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 15 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 42%
Unspecified 6 11%
Arts and Humanities 2 4%
Engineering 2 4%
Psychology 1 2%
Other 3 6%
Unknown 17 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 22 April 2024.
All research outputs
#4,253,044
of 25,761,363 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#562
of 939 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#90,040
of 394,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#12
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,761,363 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 939 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.4. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 394,002 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 33rd percentile – i.e., 33% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.