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Sports Journalism and the FIFA Scandal

Overview of attention for article published in Communication & Sport, April 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 539)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
15 news outlets
twitter
1 X user
facebook
1 Facebook page

Readers on

mendeley
91 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sports Journalism and the FIFA Scandal
Published in
Communication & Sport, April 2016
DOI 10.1177/2167479516642206
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 91 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 18%
Student > Postgraduate 4 4%
Researcher 3 3%
Other 2 2%
Lecturer 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 57 63%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 12 13%
Business, Management and Accounting 6 7%
Sports and Recreations 6 7%
Linguistics 2 2%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 58 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 121. 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 July 2026.
All research outputs
#430,897
of 33,250,112 outputs
Outputs from Communication & Sport
#14
of 539 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,996
of 333,025 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication & Sport
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,250,112 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 539 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 333,025 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 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them