Users do spend some time thinking about whether information is true; the decision to share it (even if it’s fake news) depends on the topic and the type of message.
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 146. 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 17 October 2025.
All research outputs
#351,257
of 34,180,250 outputs
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#41,742
of 210,870 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,180,250 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 210,870 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
