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Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang out Online

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, June 2006
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  • In the top 25% 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 (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
6 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
582 Mendeley
citeulike
8 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Virtual Community Attraction: Why People Hang out Online
Published in
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, June 2006
DOI 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2004.tb00229.x
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 21 4%
United Kingdom 8 1%
Germany 6 1%
Finland 3 <1%
Netherlands 3 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Poland 2 <1%
Other 11 2%
Unknown 522 90%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 115 20%
Student > Master 88 15%
Student > Bachelor 49 8%
Researcher 42 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 38 7%
Other 109 19%
Unknown 141 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 136 23%
Social Sciences 121 21%
Computer Science 69 12%
Psychology 25 4%
Arts and Humanities 17 3%
Other 56 10%
Unknown 158 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 27 June 2025.
All research outputs
#1,774,063
of 32,810,023 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
#133
of 759 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,338
of 118,561 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
#10
of 142 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,810,023 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 759 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 well, scoring higher than 82% 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 118,561 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 142 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 92% of its contemporaries.