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Communication of Scientific Uncertainty about a Novel Pandemic Health Threat: Ambiguity Aversion and Its Mechanisms

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Health Communication, April 2018
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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 (88th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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3 X users
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1 YouTube creator
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Article details
Title
Communication of Scientific Uncertainty about a Novel Pandemic Health Threat: Ambiguity Aversion and Its Mechanisms
Published in
Journal of Health Communication, April 2018
DOI 10.1080/10810730.2018.1461961
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 202 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 24 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 11%
Researcher 20 10%
Student > Bachelor 16 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 30 15%
Unknown 79 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 24 12%
Social Sciences 24 12%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 5%
Other 30 15%
Unknown 93 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 17 October 2025.
All research outputs
#2,498,850
of 33,738,238 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Health Communication
#190
of 1,502 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,668
of 369,987 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Health Communication
#4
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,738,238 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,502 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 369,987 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 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.