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The Impact of Political Sophistication and Motivated Reasoning on Misinformation

Overview of attention for article published in Political Communication, May 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 (86th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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1 policy source
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22 X users

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Title
The Impact of Political Sophistication and Motivated Reasoning on Misinformation
Published in
Political Communication, May 2020
DOI 10.1080/10584609.2020.1744778
Authors

Federico Vegetti, Moreno Mancosu

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 108 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 7%
Researcher 6 6%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Other 22 20%
Unknown 26 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 42 39%
Psychology 14 13%
Arts and Humanities 5 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 31 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 July 2021.
All research outputs
#1,996,380
of 24,662,675 outputs
Outputs from Political Communication
#221
of 795 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#51,003
of 385,657 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Communication
#8
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,662,675 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 795 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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