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Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure

Overview of attention for article published in Computers in Human Behavior, March 2016
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Title
Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure
Published in
Computers in Human Behavior, March 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.055
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 352 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 47 13%
Student > Master 37 10%
Student > Bachelor 36 10%
Lecturer 23 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 6%
Other 72 20%
Unknown 119 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 54 15%
Computer Science 38 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 32 9%
Psychology 25 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 14 4%
Other 53 15%
Unknown 140 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 20 December 2015.
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#22,693,701
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Outputs from Computers in Human Behavior
#3,980
of 4,577 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#236,752
of 316,475 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Computers in Human Behavior
#137
of 153 outputs
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