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How health journalists gatecheck public figures who share misinformation

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, October 2025
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (78th percentile)

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Article details
Title
How health journalists gatecheck public figures who share misinformation
Published in
Journalism, October 2025
DOI 10.1177/14648849251391857
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Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 1 33%
Unknown 2 67%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1 33%
Unknown 2 67%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 01 November 2025.
All research outputs
#7,909,501
of 29,648,511 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#984
of 1,660 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,853
of 171,385 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#8
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,648,511 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 71st percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,660 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.1. This one is in the 25th percentile – i.e., 25% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 171,385 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 20th percentile – i.e., 20% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.