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News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, August 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 (#5 of 927)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
14 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
171 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
68 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
100 Mendeley
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Title
News Avoidance during the Covid-19 Crisis: Understanding Information Overload
Published in
Digital Journalism, August 2021
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.1957967
Authors

Kiki de Bruin, Yael de Haan, Rens Vliegenthart, Sanne Kruikemeier, Mark Boukes

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 171 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 100 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 9%
Researcher 8 8%
Lecturer 6 6%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 42 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 33%
Psychology 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 46 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 250. 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 14 December 2023.
All research outputs
#149,424
of 25,543,275 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#5
of 927 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,351
of 438,692 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#1
of 48 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,543,275 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 927 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. 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 48 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 99% of its contemporaries.