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“Pepe the frog, the greedy merchant and #stopthesteal”: A comparative study of discursive and memetic communication on Twitter and 4chan/pol during the insurrection on the US Capitol

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, May 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 (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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31 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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1 Dimensions

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3 Mendeley
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Title
“Pepe the frog, the greedy merchant and #stopthesteal”: A comparative study of discursive and memetic communication on Twitter and 4chan/pol during the insurrection on the US Capitol
Published in
New Media & Society, May 2023
DOI 10.1177/14614448231172963
Authors

Andrey Kasimov, Regan Johnston, Tej Heer

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 1 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 33%
Student > Bachelor 1 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 1 33%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 33%
Social Sciences 1 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 24 November 2023.
All research outputs
#1,804,318
of 25,405,598 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#552
of 2,293 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#35,751
of 397,717 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#17
of 56 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,405,598 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,293 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% 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 397,717 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 56 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 71% of its contemporaries.