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What’s in a (pseudo)name? Ethical conundrums for the principles of anonymisation in social media research

Overview of attention for article published in Qualitative Research, June 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#4 of 717)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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213 X users

Citations

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Title
What’s in a (pseudo)name? Ethical conundrums for the principles of anonymisation in social media research
Published in
Qualitative Research, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/1468794120922070
Authors

Ysabel Gerrard

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 112 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 20%
Student > Master 15 13%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 17 15%
Unknown 35 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 38 34%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 7%
Philosophy 4 4%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 35 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 155. 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 14 April 2022.
All research outputs
#266,592
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Qualitative Research
#4
of 717 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,903
of 434,312 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Qualitative Research
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,584,565 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 717 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 23 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.