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(Re)writing history: Examining the cultural work of the obituary and journalists’ construction of a former president’s legacy

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, June 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 (81st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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Title
(Re)writing history: Examining the cultural work of the obituary and journalists’ construction of a former president’s legacy
Published in
Journalism, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/1464884920929831
Authors

Kirsten Adams

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 44%
Lecturer 2 22%
Researcher 2 22%
Other 1 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 11%
Other 0 0%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 44%
Linguistics 2 22%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 22%
Psychology 1 11%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 10 September 2022.
All research outputs
#3,012,365
of 25,394,081 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#449
of 1,386 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#80,237
of 433,610 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#12
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,394,081 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,386 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 433,610 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 81% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 32 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 65% of its contemporaries.