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Undercovered, Underinformed: Local News, Local Elections, and U.S. Sheriffs

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Studies, 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 (83rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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1 blog
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10 X users
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
Undercovered, Underinformed: Local News, Local Elections, and U.S. Sheriffs
Published in
Journalism Studies, June 2020
DOI 10.1080/1461670x.2020.1781546
Authors

Lindsey Meeks

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 18%
Researcher 3 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 12%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 47%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Unknown 7 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 01 December 2020.
All research outputs
#2,569,050
of 24,978,429 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Studies
#332
of 1,248 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,090
of 405,149 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Studies
#22
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,978,429 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,248 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% 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 405,149 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 45 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 53% of its contemporaries.