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The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the Internet’s cute economy

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, September 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • 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)

Mentioned by

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7 news outlets
twitter
80 X users

Citations

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29 Dimensions

Readers on

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54 Mendeley
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Title
The secret life of pet Instagram accounts: Joy, resistance, and commodification in the Internet’s cute economy
Published in
New Media & Society, September 2020
DOI 10.1177/1461444820956345
Authors

Jessica Maddox

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 54 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 15%
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 19 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 26%
Arts and Humanities 7 13%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 4 7%
Psychology 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 17 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 114. 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 07 February 2022.
All research outputs
#375,544
of 25,744,802 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#99
of 2,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,308
of 426,631 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#3
of 73 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,744,802 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 2,324 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 426,631 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 73 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.