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A definition of journalistic objectivity as a performance

Overview of attention for article published in Media, Culture & Society, April 2011
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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 (80th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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1 news outlet

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Article details
Title
A definition of journalistic objectivity as a performance
Published in
Media, Culture & Society, April 2011
DOI 10.1177/0163443710394899
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Senegal 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 118 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 18%
Student > Master 19 15%
Student > Bachelor 16 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Lecturer 7 6%
Other 26 21%
Unknown 27 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 62 50%
Arts and Humanities 19 15%
Linguistics 4 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 29 23%
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 07 September 2026.
All research outputs
#6,069,367
of 34,300,846 outputs
Outputs from Media, Culture & Society
#487
of 1,641 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,339
of 161,308 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media, Culture & Society
#7
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,300,846 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,641 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 68% 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 161,308 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 80% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 23 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its contemporaries.