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The (Null) Effects of Clickbait Headlines on Polarization, Trust, and Learning

Overview of attention for article published in Public Opinion Quarterly, 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 (89th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
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18 X users
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
The (Null) Effects of Clickbait Headlines on Polarization, Trust, and Learning
Published in
Public Opinion Quarterly, April 2020
DOI 10.1093/poq/nfaa008
Authors

Kevin Munger, Mario Luca, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua Tucker

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 13%
Student > Master 6 10%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 23 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 30%
Computer Science 7 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 8%
Arts and Humanities 3 5%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 24 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 May 2023.
All research outputs
#1,589,228
of 25,085,910 outputs
Outputs from Public Opinion Quarterly
#227
of 1,335 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,414
of 382,020 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Opinion Quarterly
#7
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,085,910 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 1,335 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its peers.
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