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Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?

Overview of attention for article published in Political Behavior, July 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 1,151)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
41 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
2136 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
169 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
bluesky
62 Bluesky users
podcasts
4 podcasts

Readers on

mendeley
92 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories?
Published in
Political Behavior, July 2022
DOI 10.1007/s11109-022-09812-3
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 92 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 13%
Student > Master 8 9%
Professor 7 8%
Researcher 7 8%
Lecturer 5 5%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 41 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 29 32%
Psychology 11 12%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Unspecified 2 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 41 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1735. 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 30 August 2026.
All research outputs
#7,177
of 34,436,843 outputs
Outputs from Political Behavior
#2
of 1,151 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#261
of 459,947 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Behavior
#1
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,436,843 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 1,151 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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