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On the Relevance of Standpoint Epistemology to the Practice of Journalism: The Case for “Strong Objectivity”

Overview of attention for article published in Communication Theory, March 2006
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Article details
Title
On the Relevance of Standpoint Epistemology to the Practice of Journalism: The Case for “Strong Objectivity”
Published in
Communication Theory, March 2006
DOI 10.1111/j.1468-2885.1998.tb00213.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Canada 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Japan 1 1%
Croatia 1 1%
Unknown 78 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 17%
Student > Master 14 17%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 18 22%
Unknown 14 17%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 43%
Arts and Humanities 20 24%
Computer Science 4 5%
Philosophy 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 16 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 12 November 2025.
All research outputs
#5,082,031
of 29,643,989 outputs
Outputs from Communication Theory
#128
of 450 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,762
of 111,149 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication Theory
#9
of 49 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,643,989 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 82nd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 450 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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