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Is Automated Journalistic Writing Less Biased? An Experimental Test of Auto-Written and Human-Written News Stories

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism Practice, October 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#5 of 1,556)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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2 blogs
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332 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
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1 Redditor
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Article details
Title
Is Automated Journalistic Writing Less Biased? An Experimental Test of Auto-Written and Human-Written News Stories
Published in
Journalism Practice, October 2019
DOI 10.1080/17512786.2019.1682940
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 80 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 18%
Student > Master 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 4%
Researcher 3 4%
Other 11 14%
Unknown 35 44%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 21%
Psychology 6 8%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Computer Science 4 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 40 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 258. 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 25 October 2025.
All research outputs
#180,617
of 34,675,792 outputs
Outputs from Journalism Practice
#5
of 1,556 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,055
of 412,703 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism Practice
#2
of 32 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,556 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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