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An analysis of fake social media engagement services

Overview of attention for article published in Computers & Security, January 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#12 of 1,177)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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8 news outlets
twitter
15 X users

Readers on

mendeley
61 Mendeley
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Title
An analysis of fake social media engagement services
Published in
Computers & Security, January 2023
DOI 10.1016/j.cose.2022.103013
Authors

David Nevado-Catalán, Sergio Pastrana, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Juan Tapiador

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Student > Master 5 8%
Lecturer 4 7%
Unspecified 3 5%
Other 2 3%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 33 54%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 7 11%
Computer Science 6 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 35 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 75. 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 21 April 2023.
All research outputs
#582,947
of 25,779,988 outputs
Outputs from Computers & Security
#12
of 1,177 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,384
of 480,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers & Security
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,779,988 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,177 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 480,397 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.