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Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study

Overview of attention for article published in Science Communication, September 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)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
31 X users

Citations

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214 Dimensions

Readers on

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345 Mendeley
Title
Effects of COVID-19 Misinformation on Information Seeking, Avoidance, and Processing: A Multicountry Comparative Study
Published in
Science Communication, September 2020
DOI 10.1177/1075547020959670
Pubmed ID
Authors

Hye Kyung Kim, Jisoo Ahn, Lucy Atkinson, Lee Ann Kahlor

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 345 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 38 11%
Student > Bachelor 32 9%
Researcher 25 7%
Lecturer 17 5%
Other 51 15%
Unknown 138 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 71 21%
Psychology 19 6%
Computer Science 16 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 14 4%
Other 58 17%
Unknown 152 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 06 September 2022.
All research outputs
#981,749
of 25,728,855 outputs
Outputs from Science Communication
#56
of 584 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,635
of 428,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science Communication
#7
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,728,855 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 584 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% 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 428,820 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 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 41st percentile – i.e., 41% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.