↓ Skip to main content

Whether people prepare for natural disasters depends on how the message is sent

Overview of attention for news story in The Conversation
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

Mentioned by

news
14 news outlets
twitter
40 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
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.
Article details
Title
Whether people prepare for natural disasters depends on how the message is sent
Published by
The Conversation, March 2022
DOI 10.64628/aa.v4fa9kdy6
Authors

Elrick-Barr, Carmen, Smith, Professor, Carmen Elrick-Barr, Professor Tim Smith

Abstract

Simply providing passive information is not enough. Governments must find better ways to deliver important messages about natural hazards.

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 40 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 131. 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 April 2022.
All research outputs
#397,897
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#48,064
of 211,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,888
of 471,779 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#715
of 1,140 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 211,841 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 471,779 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 1,140 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.