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Determining disaster severity through social media analysis: Testing the methodology with South East Queensland Flood tweets

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, January 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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Article details
Title
Determining disaster severity through social media analysis: Testing the methodology with South East Queensland Flood tweets
Published in
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, January 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101360
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 303 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 36 12%
Student > Master 25 8%
Lecturer 24 8%
Researcher 19 6%
Student > Bachelor 15 5%
Other 49 16%
Unknown 135 45%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 42 14%
Social Sciences 34 11%
Engineering 23 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 5%
Environmental Science 13 4%
Other 30 10%
Unknown 146 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. 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 30 April 2020.
All research outputs
#1,766,524
of 27,663,950 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
#189
of 2,076 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,578
of 485,904 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
#8
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,663,950 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,076 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.
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