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How Fear Appeal Approaches in COVID-19 Health Communication May Be Harming the Global Community

Overview of attention for article published in Health Education & Behavior, June 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 1,443)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
24 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
76 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
107 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
239 Mendeley
Title
How Fear Appeal Approaches in COVID-19 Health Communication May Be Harming the Global Community
Published in
Health Education & Behavior, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/1090198120935073
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jeni A. Stolow, Lina M. Moses, Alyssa M. Lederer, Rebecca Carter

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 239 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 239 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 8%
Researcher 19 8%
Student > Bachelor 19 8%
Lecturer 14 6%
Other 46 19%
Unknown 90 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 38 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 9%
Psychology 20 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 4%
Arts and Humanities 10 4%
Other 38 16%
Unknown 101 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 249. 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 29 October 2023.
All research outputs
#147,098
of 25,262,379 outputs
Outputs from Health Education & Behavior
#14
of 1,443 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,881
of 405,164 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Education & Behavior
#2
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,262,379 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,443 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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