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Gaming Disorder: News Media Framing of Video Game Addiction as a Mental Illness

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, November 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (73rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (57th percentile)

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4 X users
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
Gaming Disorder: News Media Framing of Video Game Addiction as a Mental Illness
Published in
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, November 2020
DOI 10.1080/08838151.2020.1844887
Authors

Scott Parrott, Ryan Rogers, Nathan A. Towery, Samuel D. Hakim

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 19%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Researcher 2 5%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 21 49%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 8 19%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 7%
Psychology 3 7%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Computer Science 2 5%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 22 51%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 December 2021.
All research outputs
#5,409,395
of 25,387,668 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#189
of 607 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#137,318
of 519,767 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
#6
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,387,668 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 607 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 519,767 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 14 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 57% of its contemporaries.