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Who Posts Fake News? Authentic and Inauthentic Spreaders of Fabricated News on Facebook and Twitter

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, February 2023
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

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14 X users

Citations

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Title
Who Posts Fake News? Authentic and Inauthentic Spreaders of Fabricated News on Facebook and Twitter
Published in
Journalism Practice, February 2023
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2023.2176352
Authors

Tatiana Dourado

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 10 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 20%
Lecturer 1 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 10%
Student > Bachelor 1 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 10%
Other 2 20%
Unknown 2 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 40%
Unspecified 2 20%
Arts and Humanities 1 10%
Psychology 1 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 10%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 1 10%
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 15 February 2023.
All research outputs
#2,993,577
of 23,685,936 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#353
of 1,037 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,122
of 445,511 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#19
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,685,936 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,037 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% 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 445,511 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 38 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 52% of its contemporaries.