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Toy department within the toy department? Online sports journalists and professional legitimacy

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, September 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 1,825)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
15 news outlets
blogs
1 blog

Readers on

mendeley
59 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Toy department within the toy department? Online sports journalists and professional legitimacy
Published in
Journalism, September 2018
DOI 10.1177/1464884918797613
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 59 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 12%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Lecturer 5 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Researcher 3 5%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 26 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 29%
Arts and Humanities 6 10%
Sports and Recreations 4 7%
Unspecified 1 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 27 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 103. 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 03 October 2026.
All research outputs
#518,729
of 34,516,729 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#43
of 1,825 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,549
of 376,741 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#2
of 32 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,516,729 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 1,825 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 376,741 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 32 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 93% of its contemporaries.