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The Alarmed Citizen: Fear, Mistrust, and Alternative Media

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, October 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 (85th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (59th percentile)

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1 news outlet
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7 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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56 Mendeley
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Title
The Alarmed Citizen: Fear, Mistrust, and Alternative Media
Published in
Journalism Practice, October 2020
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2020.1825113
Authors

Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud, Tine Ustad Figenschou

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 11%
Professor 4 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Student > Bachelor 2 4%
Other 11 20%
Unknown 23 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 20 36%
Arts and Humanities 6 11%
Unspecified 2 4%
Mathematics 1 2%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 4 7%
Unknown 22 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 24 April 2023.
All research outputs
#2,357,670
of 24,882,360 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#211
of 1,091 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,484
of 421,897 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#12
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,882,360 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,091 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 421,897 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 85% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 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 59% of its contemporaries.