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Actors of Disinformation: Issuers and Recipients of Hoaxes in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

Overview of attention for article published in American Behavioral Scientist, June 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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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1 Bluesky user

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Article details
Title
Actors of Disinformation: Issuers and Recipients of Hoaxes in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election
Published in
American Behavioral Scientist, June 2026
DOI 10.1177/00027642261459219
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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. 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 04 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,300,999
of 34,519,212 outputs
Outputs from American Behavioral Scientist
#279
of 1,956 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,257
of 357,633 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Behavioral Scientist
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,519,212 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,956 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% 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 357,633 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 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