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The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Communication, September 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#19 of 1,301)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
11 news outlets
twitter
362 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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71 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
99 Mendeley
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Title
The Distorting Prism of Social Media: How Self-Selection and Exposure to Incivility Fuel Online Comment Toxicity
Published in
Journal of Communication, September 2021
DOI 10.1093/joc/jqab034
Authors

Jin Woo Kim, Andrew Guess, Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 17%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Master 7 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 5%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 39 39%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 31 31%
Psychology 7 7%
Computer Science 6 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 42 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 327. 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 13 November 2023.
All research outputs
#102,904
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Communication
#19
of 1,301 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,927
of 434,651 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Communication
#2
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,582,611 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 1,301 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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