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Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, February 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
twitter
11 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Readers on

mendeley
28 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Platform visibility and the making of an issue: Vernaculars of hereditary cancer on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter
Published in
New Media & Society, February 2024
DOI 10.1177/14614448241229048
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 28 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 28 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 4 14%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Professor 2 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 7%
Researcher 2 7%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 14 50%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 21%
Arts and Humanities 3 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 13 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 77. 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 25 July 2026.
All research outputs
#689,007
of 33,222,652 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#193
of 2,736 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,640
of 376,894 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#6
of 63 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,222,652 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 2,736 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% 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 376,894 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 63 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.