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Cheating or Fair Competition? A Structuration Analysis of Social Media Responses to Lia Thomas’ NCAA Swimming Championship

Overview of attention for article published in Communication & Sport, April 2025
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Article details
Title
Cheating or Fair Competition? A Structuration Analysis of Social Media Responses to Lia Thomas’ NCAA Swimming Championship
Published in
Communication & Sport, April 2025
DOI 10.1177/21674795251330304
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Country Count As %
Unknown 4 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 1 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 25%
Student > Master 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 2 50%
Unspecified 1 25%
Unknown 1 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 09 April 2025.
All research outputs
#18,034,643
of 28,068,708 outputs
Outputs from Communication & Sport
#280
of 468 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,997
of 153,173 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication & Sport
#9
of 16 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 468 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one is in the 32nd percentile – i.e., 32% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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