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Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?

Overview of attention for article published in Mass Communication and Society, December 2022
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (65th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Can News Literacy Help Reduce Belief in COVID Misinformation?
Published in
Mass Communication and Society, December 2022
DOI 10.1080/15205436.2022.2137040
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 11%
Lecturer 2 7%
Professor 2 7%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 11 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 7 25%
Arts and Humanities 2 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 7%
Unspecified 1 4%
Linguistics 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 13 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 27 May 2026.
All research outputs
#4,315,426
of 32,797,349 outputs
Outputs from Mass Communication and Society
#165
of 611 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,217
of 526,140 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Mass Communication and Society
#7
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,797,349 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 611 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its contemporaries.