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How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech

Overview of attention for article published in Information, Communication & Society, November 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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1 blog
twitter
36 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
How African countries respond to fake news and hate speech
Published in
Information, Communication & Society, November 2021
DOI 10.1080/1369118x.2021.1994623
Authors

Lisa Garbe, Lisa-Marie Selvik, Pauline Lemaire

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 46 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 5 11%
Student > Master 4 9%
Lecturer 4 9%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 21 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 10 22%
Computer Science 4 9%
Psychology 3 7%
Linguistics 2 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 4%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 21 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 19 December 2021.
All research outputs
#1,227,337
of 25,392,582 outputs
Outputs from Information, Communication & Society
#196
of 1,656 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,442
of 441,011 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Information, Communication & Society
#8
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,392,582 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,656 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 441,011 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 38 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.