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Free but fake speech: When giving primacy to the source decreases misinformation sharing on social media

Overview of attention for article published in Psychology & Marketing, March 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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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3 X users

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mendeley
96 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Free but fake speech: When giving primacy to the source decreases misinformation sharing on social media
Published in
Psychology & Marketing, March 2021
DOI 10.1002/mar.21479
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 96 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 9%
Lecturer 5 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 5%
Other 19 20%
Unknown 48 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 9%
Psychology 6 6%
Computer Science 5 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 52 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 54. 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 05 January 2024.
All research outputs
#862,081
of 27,536,506 outputs
Outputs from Psychology & Marketing
#56
of 1,111 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,139
of 461,057 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Psychology & Marketing
#3
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,536,506 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 1,111 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 461,057 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.