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Analysis of political discourse on twitter in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections

Overview of attention for article published in Government Information Quarterly, December 2017
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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 (92nd percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
twitter
4 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
492 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Analysis of political discourse on twitter in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections
Published in
Government Information Quarterly, December 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.giq.2017.11.001
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 492 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 492 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 79 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 78 16%
Student > Bachelor 29 6%
Researcher 28 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 5%
Other 71 14%
Unknown 180 37%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 98 20%
Computer Science 74 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 47 10%
Arts and Humanities 17 3%
Linguistics 13 3%
Other 57 12%
Unknown 186 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 05 October 2020.
All research outputs
#1,923,566
of 32,075,850 outputs
Outputs from Government Information Quarterly
#60
of 788 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,713
of 474,323 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Government Information Quarterly
#1
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,075,850 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 788 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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