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The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation

Overview of attention for article published in Political Behavior, July 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 1,147)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
43 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
111 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
9 Redditors
video
2 YouTube creators
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
308 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The Relationship Between Social Media Use and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation
Published in
Political Behavior, July 2021
DOI 10.1007/s11109-021-09734-6
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 308 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 9%
Student > Master 27 9%
Student > Bachelor 23 7%
Researcher 16 5%
Lecturer 12 4%
Other 41 13%
Unknown 162 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 68 22%
Psychology 25 8%
Arts and Humanities 9 3%
Computer Science 6 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 1%
Other 27 9%
Unknown 169 55%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 441. 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 18 July 2026.
All research outputs
#81,164
of 34,317,218 outputs
Outputs from Political Behavior
#12
of 1,147 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,155
of 481,049 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Behavior
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,317,218 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,147 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 37.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 481,049 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.