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Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Communication, April 2021
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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 (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
44 X users

Citations

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34 Dimensions

Readers on

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69 Mendeley
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Title
Assembling the Networks and Audiences of Disinformation: How Successful Russian IRA Twitter Accounts Built Their Followings, 2015–2017
Published in
Journal of Communication, April 2021
DOI 10.1093/joc/jqaa042
Authors

Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, Min-Hsin Su, Jiyoun Suk, Yiping Xia, Sang Jung Kim, Larissa Doroshenko, Chris Wells

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 44 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 69 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 69 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 17%
Student > Master 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Librarian 3 4%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 30 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 33%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 4%
Computer Science 3 4%
Unspecified 2 3%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 6 9%
Unknown 30 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 96. 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 03 March 2023.
All research outputs
#446,009
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Communication
#84
of 1,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,886
of 454,544 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Communication
#2
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,582,611 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 1,301 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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 90% of its contemporaries.