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Finding Extremists in Online Social Networks

Overview of attention for article published in Operations Research , August 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 1,421)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
10 X users
googleplus
2 Google+ users

Readers on

mendeley
61 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Finding Extremists in Online Social Networks
Published in
Operations Research , August 2018
DOI 10.1287/opre.2018.1719
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 18%
Professor 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 7%
Student > Master 4 7%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 5%
Other 15 25%
Unknown 18 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 12 20%
Computer Science 8 13%
Social Sciences 7 11%
Decision Sciences 4 7%
Engineering 3 5%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 22 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 71. 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 June 2020.
All research outputs
#759,991
of 34,376,207 outputs
Outputs from Operations Research
#7
of 1,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,285
of 372,408 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Operations Research
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,376,207 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,421 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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