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Defining and conceptualizing news literacy

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, March 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
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mendeley
113 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Defining and conceptualizing news literacy
Published in
Journalism, March 2021
DOI 10.1177/14648849211005888
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 113 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 10%
Student > Master 9 8%
Researcher 8 7%
Lecturer 7 6%
Student > Bachelor 4 4%
Other 15 13%
Unknown 59 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 26%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Computer Science 3 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 62 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 August 2022.
All research outputs
#1,639,183
of 30,078,339 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#173
of 1,685 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,915
of 448,541 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#8
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 30,078,339 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,685 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% 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 448,541 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 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 73% of its contemporaries.