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News from the ad archive: how journalists use the Facebook Ad Library to hold online advertising accountable

Overview of attention for article published in Information, Communication & Society, December 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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
81 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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7 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
38 Mendeley
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Title
News from the ad archive: how journalists use the Facebook Ad Library to hold online advertising accountable
Published in
Information, Communication & Society, December 2021
DOI 10.1080/1369118x.2021.2009002
Authors

Paddy Leerssen, Tom Dobber, Natali Helberger, Claes de Vreese

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 81 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 38 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 38 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 16%
Unspecified 5 13%
Professor 4 11%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 8%
Lecturer 2 5%
Other 7 18%
Unknown 11 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 32%
Unspecified 5 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 3%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 12 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 69. 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 17 August 2022.
All research outputs
#633,001
of 25,746,891 outputs
Outputs from Information, Communication & Society
#80
of 1,679 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,140
of 517,758 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Information, Communication & Society
#2
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,746,891 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,679 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 517,758 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 45 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 95% of its contemporaries.