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The Meanings of News: How U.S. Adults Think About the Word “News”

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, August 2026
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The Meanings of News: How U.S. Adults Think About the Word “News”
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, August 2026
DOI 10.1177/10776990261471546
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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
#4,196,761
of 34,255,563 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#296
of 1,527 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,966
of 263,678 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#1
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,255,563 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 87th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,527 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 263,678 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 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 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 94% of its contemporaries.