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Tweeted, deleted: An exploratory study of the US government’s digital memory holes

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, July 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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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71 X users

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Title
Tweeted, deleted: An exploratory study of the US government’s digital memory holes
Published in
New Media & Society, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/1461444820934034
Authors

Muira McCammon

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 116 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 15%
Student > Master 11 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Researcher 8 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 5%
Other 19 16%
Unknown 46 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 22 19%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 11%
Computer Science 13 11%
Unspecified 5 4%
Arts and Humanities 5 4%
Other 11 9%
Unknown 47 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 February 2022.
All research outputs
#892,108
of 25,822,778 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#265
of 2,327 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,879
of 430,902 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#12
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,822,778 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 2,327 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 430,902 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 70 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.