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Going Viral: Sharing of Misinformation by Social Media Influencers

Overview of attention for article published in Australasian Marketing Journal, August 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 198)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Readers on

mendeley
139 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Going Viral: Sharing of Misinformation by Social Media Influencers
Published in
Australasian Marketing Journal, August 2024
DOI 10.1177/14413582241273987
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 139 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 6%
Unspecified 6 4%
Lecturer 6 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 3%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 3%
Other 10 7%
Unknown 101 73%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 7 5%
Unspecified 6 4%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Social Sciences 4 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 102 73%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 78. 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 17 August 2026.
All research outputs
#684,661
of 34,166,863 outputs
Outputs from Australasian Marketing Journal
#3
of 198 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,515
of 332,878 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Australasian Marketing Journal
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,166,863 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 198 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 332,878 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 3 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them