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“Creator burnout is real”: Risk, responsibility, and un/speakability in the creator economy

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, July 2026
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  • In the top 5% 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 (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

Readers on

mendeley
8 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
“Creator burnout is real”: Risk, responsibility, and un/speakability in the creator economy
Published in
New Media & Society, July 2026
DOI 10.1177/14614448261459667
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 8 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor > Associate Professor 1 13%
Lecturer 1 13%
Unknown 6 75%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 1 13%
Social Sciences 1 13%
Unknown 6 75%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 63. 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 20 September 2026.
All research outputs
#858,646
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#246
of 2,763 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,316
of 348,036 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#1
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 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 2,763 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 348,036 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 35 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 97% of its contemporaries.