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Did journalists ‘sanewash’ Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign? An empirical analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Media International Australia, August 2026
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#22 of 846)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
Did journalists ‘sanewash’ Donald Trump during the 2024 election campaign? An empirical analysis
Published in
Media International Australia, August 2026
DOI 10.1177/1329878x261468389
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 80. 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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#664,619
of 34,255,563 outputs
Outputs from Media International Australia
#22
of 846 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,071
of 227,955 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media International Australia
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,255,563 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 846 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 227,955 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them