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Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 US Election

Overview of attention for article published in Social Media + Society, June 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 1,441)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
39 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
18 X users
bluesky
37 Bluesky users
podcasts
1 podcast

Readers on

mendeley
101 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 US Election
Published in
Social Media + Society, June 2023
DOI 10.1177/20563051231177943
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 101 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 9%
Unspecified 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Student > Bachelor 5 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 5%
Other 13 13%
Unknown 58 57%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 24%
Unspecified 6 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Philosophy 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 59 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 387. 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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#101,145
of 34,601,261 outputs
Outputs from Social Media + Society
#13
of 1,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,106
of 418,483 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Media + Society
#1
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,601,261 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,441 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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