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Brevity is the Soul of Twitter: The Constraint Affordance and Political Discussion

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Communication, July 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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
141 X users

Citations

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70 Dimensions

Readers on

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134 Mendeley
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Title
Brevity is the Soul of Twitter: The Constraint Affordance and Political Discussion
Published in
Journal of Communication, July 2019
DOI 10.1093/joc/jqz023
Authors

Kokil Jaidka, Alvin Zhou, Yphtach Lelkes

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 141 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 134 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 134 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 19%
Student > Master 20 15%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Professor 6 4%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 43 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 50 37%
Computer Science 8 6%
Psychology 6 4%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Linguistics 3 2%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 52 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 108. 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 28 July 2023.
All research outputs
#392,859
of 25,559,053 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Communication
#70
of 1,302 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,021
of 360,827 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Communication
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,559,053 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 1,302 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 360,827 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 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.