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Hard to read, easy to cite? How national distance shapes citation patterns in communication scholarship

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Science, August 2026
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Article details
Title
Hard to read, easy to cite? How national distance shapes citation patterns in communication scholarship
Published in
Journal of Information Science, August 2026
DOI 10.1177/01655515261478905
Authors

Xu Dong, Xinlu He

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 3 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 1 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 33%
Researcher 1 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 33%
Unspecified 1 33%
Social Sciences 1 33%
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 September 2026.
All research outputs
#9,546,061
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Science
#180
of 830 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,234
of 152,992 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Science
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 830 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% 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 152,992 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 3 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