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Do Search Algorithms Endanger Democracy? An Experimental Investigation of Algorithm Effects on Political Polarization

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, April 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 (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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Title
Do Search Algorithms Endanger Democracy? An Experimental Investigation of Algorithm Effects on Political Polarization
Published in
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, April 2020
DOI 10.1080/08838151.2020.1757365
Authors

Jaeho Cho, Saifuddin Ahmed, Martin Hilbert, Billy Liu, Jonathan Luu

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 118 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 16%
Student > Master 15 13%
Student > Bachelor 12 10%
Researcher 8 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 4%
Other 16 14%
Unknown 43 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 6%
Computer Science 7 6%
Psychology 6 5%
Unspecified 5 4%
Other 13 11%
Unknown 44 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 December 2022.
All research outputs
#1,744,987
of 25,550,333 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#73
of 610 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,372
of 407,922 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,550,333 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 610 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its peers.
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