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Big Tech, big risk? How education and ideology shape public attitudes toward Big Tech companies

Overview of attention for article published in Research & Politics, October 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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Big Tech, big risk? How education and ideology shape public attitudes toward Big Tech companies
Published in
Research & Politics, October 2026
DOI 10.1177/20531680261493642
Authors

Tobias Tober, Marius R. Busemeyer, Sebastian Koos

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 23 October 2026.
All research outputs
#2,097,668
of 34,637,917 outputs
Outputs from Research & Politics
#155
of 587 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,702
of 226,323 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Research & Politics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,637,917 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 587 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% 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 226,323 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 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