↓ Skip to main content

Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, February 2022
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#31 of 2,298)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
22 news outlets
twitter
73 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
34 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
89 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Conspiracy theories in online environments: An interdisciplinary literature review and agenda for future research
Published in
New Media & Society, February 2022
DOI 10.1177/14614448221075759
Authors

Daniela Mahl, Mike S. Schäfer, Jing Zeng

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 73 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 89 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 89 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 17%
Student > Master 9 10%
Researcher 8 9%
Lecturer 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 6%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 32 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 31 35%
Arts and Humanities 7 8%
Psychology 4 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 33 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 220. 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 June 2023.
All research outputs
#176,027
of 25,473,687 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#31
of 2,298 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,686
of 522,360 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#1
of 73 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,473,687 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 2,298 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 522,360 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 73 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.