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“Fake News Is Anything They Say!” — Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public

Overview of attention for article published in Mass Communication and Society, July 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#28 of 506)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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2 blogs
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Title
“Fake News Is Anything They Say!” — Conceptualization and Weaponization of Fake News among the American Public
Published in
Mass Communication and Society, July 2020
DOI 10.1080/15205436.2020.1789661
Authors

Chau Tong, Hyungjin Gill, Jianing Li, Sebastián Valenzuela, Hernando Rojas

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 21%
Student > Master 11 13%
Researcher 7 8%
Professor 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 23 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 42%
Arts and Humanities 9 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 26 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 15 March 2024.
All research outputs
#926,719
of 25,559,053 outputs
Outputs from Mass Communication and Society
#28
of 506 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,935
of 427,473 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Mass Communication and Society
#2
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,559,053 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 506 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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