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Following Politicians on Social Media: Effects for Political Information, Peer Communication, and Youth Engagement

Overview of attention for article published in Media and Communication, May 2020
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (54th percentile)

Mentioned by

twitter
8 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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27 Dimensions

Readers on

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143 Mendeley
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Title
Following Politicians on Social Media: Effects for Political Information, Peer Communication, and Youth Engagement
Published in
Media and Communication, May 2020
DOI 10.17645/mac.v8i2.2764
Authors

Franziska Marquart, Jakob Ohme, Judith Möller

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 143 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 143 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 13%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Lecturer 12 8%
Student > Master 10 7%
Researcher 10 7%
Other 17 12%
Unknown 63 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 4%
Arts and Humanities 6 4%
Unspecified 4 3%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 12 8%
Unknown 66 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 30 June 2020.
All research outputs
#6,931,237
of 25,339,932 outputs
Outputs from Media and Communication
#332
of 668 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#134,612
of 396,612 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media and Communication
#20
of 42 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,339,932 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 668 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 50% 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 396,612 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 42 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its contemporaries.