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Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate

Overview of attention for article published in Games and Culture, April 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 (#10 of 611)
  • 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)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
twitter
66 X users
wikipedia
19 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
reddit
5 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley
222 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
Anger, Fear, and Games: The Long Event of #GamerGate
Published in
Games and Culture, April 2016
DOI 10.1177/1555412016640408
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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 222 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 219 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 37 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 14%
Student > Bachelor 20 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 7%
Researcher 11 5%
Other 37 17%
Unknown 70 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 51 23%
Arts and Humanities 45 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 5%
Computer Science 10 5%
Psychology 7 3%
Other 26 12%
Unknown 73 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 76. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#709,628
of 34,286,807 outputs
Outputs from Games and Culture
#10
of 611 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,786
of 340,728 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Games and Culture
#2
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,286,807 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 611 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 340,728 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 30 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.