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Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, November 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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
37 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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45 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
68 Mendeley
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Title
Block, Hide or Follow—Personal News Curation Practices on Social Media
Published in
Digital Journalism, November 2020
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2020.1829978
Authors

Lisa Merten

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 37 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 68 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 22%
Unspecified 7 10%
Researcher 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Student > Master 4 6%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 21 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 27 40%
Unspecified 7 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 1%
Other 5 7%
Unknown 24 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 23 April 2022.
All research outputs
#1,260,293
of 25,715,849 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#136
of 937 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,094
of 434,574 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#4
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,715,849 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 937 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 434,574 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.