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Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study

Overview of attention for article published in Science Communication, 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 (93rd percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
31 X users

Citations

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Readers on

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340 Mendeley
Title
Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study
Published in
Science Communication, September 2020
DOI 10.1177/1075547020959670
Authors

Hye Kyung Kim, Jisoo Ahn, Lucy Atkinson, Lee Ann Kahlor

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 340 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 35 10%
Student > Bachelor 33 10%
Researcher 25 7%
Lecturer 16 5%
Other 51 15%
Unknown 136 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 69 20%
Psychology 18 5%
Computer Science 16 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 4%
Other 58 17%
Unknown 149 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 06 September 2022.
All research outputs
#963,402
of 25,387,668 outputs
Outputs from Science Communication
#54
of 576 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,486
of 427,033 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Communication
#7
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,387,668 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 576 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 427,033 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.