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Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Principles and Attributes.

Overview of attention for article published in NAM Perspectives, July 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 345)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
48 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
135 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
video
1 YouTube creator
bluesky
1 Bluesky user
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
346 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Identifying Credible Sources of Health Information in Social Media: Principles and Attributes.
Published in
NAM Perspectives, July 2021
DOI 10.31478/202107a
Pubmed ID
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 346 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 5%
Student > Master 17 5%
Researcher 16 5%
Lecturer 13 4%
Other 48 14%
Unknown 212 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 25 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 6%
Social Sciences 19 5%
Psychology 9 3%
Arts and Humanities 9 3%
Other 45 13%
Unknown 218 63%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 494. 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 04 July 2026.
All research outputs
#67,545
of 34,518,599 outputs
Outputs from NAM Perspectives
#3
of 345 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,896
of 476,139 outputs
Outputs of similar age from NAM Perspectives
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,518,599 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 345 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 31.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.