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Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?

Overview of attention for article published in International Review for the Sociology of Sport, November 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 (#5 of 850)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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news
24 news outlets
twitter
13 X users
reddit
3 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
204 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Sportswashing: Media headline or analytic concept?
Published in
International Review for the Sociology of Sport, November 2022
DOI 10.1177/10126902221136086
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 204 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 5%
Lecturer 8 4%
Student > Master 6 3%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 5 2%
Other 12 6%
Unknown 151 74%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 15 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 6%
Sports and Recreations 8 4%
Arts and Humanities 3 1%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 1%
Other 10 5%
Unknown 152 75%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 179. 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 01 October 2026.
All research outputs
#284,046
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from International Review for the Sociology of Sport
#5
of 850 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,355
of 468,363 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Review for the Sociology of Sport
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 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 850 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 468,363 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 9 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