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The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News

Overview of attention for article published in American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#11 of 535)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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Title
The Fake News Effect: Experimentally Identifying Motivated Reasoning Using Trust in News
Published in
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, May 2024
DOI 10.1257/mic.20220146
Authors

Michael Thaler

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 06 May 2024.
All research outputs
#822,928
of 25,888,065 outputs
Outputs from American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
#11
of 535 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,455
of 183,661 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,888,065 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 535 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 183,661 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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 90% of its contemporaries.