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The curiosity effect: Information seeking in the contemporary news environment

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, August 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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blogs
3 blogs
twitter
48 X users

Citations

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26 Dimensions

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70 Mendeley
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Title
The curiosity effect: Information seeking in the contemporary news environment
Published in
New Media & Society, August 2019
DOI 10.1177/1461444819863408
Authors

Joshua M Scacco, Ashley Muddiman

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 23%
Student > Master 8 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 5 7%
Student > Bachelor 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Other 12 17%
Unknown 20 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 26 37%
Computer Science 5 7%
Linguistics 4 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 21 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 45. 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 12 March 2020.
All research outputs
#940,402
of 25,593,129 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#281
of 2,314 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,771
of 357,615 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#6
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,593,129 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,314 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 357,615 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 39 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.