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The power and pleasure – and occasional backlash – of celebrity conspiracy theories

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The power and pleasure – and occasional backlash – of celebrity conspiracy theories
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.7srfa6ukv
Authors

Smith, Naomi, Southerton, Clare

Abstract

One of the more satisfying aspects of conspiracy theorising is, sometimes, they might just be right.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 55. 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 11 April 2025.
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Altmetric has tracked 33,005,778 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 207,272 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 99.1. This one is in the 48th percentile – i.e., 48% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.