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Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, July 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 (82nd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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1 blog
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6 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes
Published in
Journalism Practice, July 2020
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2020.1793379
Authors

Fred Vultee, G. Scott Burgess, Darryl Frazier, Kelsey Mesmer

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 27 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 15%
Lecturer 4 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Student > Master 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Other 4 15%
Unknown 8 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 44%
Arts and Humanities 2 7%
Unspecified 1 4%
Linguistics 1 4%
Environmental Science 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 8 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 February 2021.
All research outputs
#2,519,799
of 23,577,654 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#271
of 1,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#67,887
of 398,157 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#13
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,577,654 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 1,028 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 33 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 60% of its contemporaries.