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Political Facebook use: Campaign strategies used in 2008 and 2012 presidential elections

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics, May 2016
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 593)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Political Facebook use: Campaign strategies used in 2008 and 2012 presidential elections
Published in
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, May 2016
DOI 10.1080/19331681.2016.1163519
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 364 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 15%
Student > Master 48 13%
Researcher 34 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 25 7%
Student > Bachelor 21 6%
Other 63 17%
Unknown 121 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 87 24%
Computer Science 50 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 44 12%
Arts and Humanities 13 4%
Decision Sciences 6 2%
Other 32 9%
Unknown 133 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 559. 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 31 March 2024.
All research outputs
#54,668
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology &amp; Politics
#2
of 593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#873
of 338,712 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology &amp; Politics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 593 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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