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Conspiracy Theories as a Russian Public Diplomacy Tool: The Case of Russia Today (RT)

Overview of attention for article published in Politics, April 2015
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 793)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
10 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
44 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
reddit
9 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
203 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Conspiracy Theories as a Russian Public Diplomacy Tool: The Case of Russia Today (RT)
Published in
Politics, April 2015
DOI 10.1111/1467-9256.12097
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Finland 1 <1%
Unknown 202 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 38 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 30 15%
Student > Bachelor 21 10%
Researcher 12 6%
Lecturer 10 5%
Other 25 12%
Unknown 67 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 95 47%
Arts and Humanities 17 8%
Psychology 8 4%
Computer Science 4 2%
Environmental Science 3 1%
Other 11 5%
Unknown 65 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. 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 30 September 2026.
All research outputs
#386,349
of 34,815,051 outputs
Outputs from Politics
#5
of 793 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,439
of 308,382 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Politics
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,815,051 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 793 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 308,382 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.