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Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, May 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#40 of 1,529)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
14 X users
reddit
1 Redditor
bluesky
6 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
16 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Cable News Use and Conspiracy Theories: Exploring Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC Effects on People’s Conspiracy Mentality
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, May 2023
DOI 10.1177/10776990231171929
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 19%
Professor 2 13%
Unspecified 1 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Unknown 9 56%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 25%
Unspecified 1 6%
Computer Science 1 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 6%
Unknown 9 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 20 May 2026.
All research outputs
#799,857
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#40
of 1,529 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,070
of 423,820 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 1,529 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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