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Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on youtube

Overview of attention for article published in Media Psychology, September 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 (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
17 X users
reddit
2 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

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44 Dimensions

Readers on

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91 Mendeley
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Title
Differential susceptibility to misleading flat earth arguments on youtube
Published in
Media Psychology, September 2019
DOI 10.1080/15213269.2019.1669461
Authors

Asheley R. Landrum, Alex Olshansky, Othello Richards

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 91 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 12%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 21 23%
Unknown 30 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 20%
Psychology 10 11%
Arts and Humanities 8 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 34 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 17 March 2024.
All research outputs
#1,241,516
of 25,380,192 outputs
Outputs from Media Psychology
#59
of 436 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#26,423
of 355,186 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media Psychology
#4
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,380,192 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 436 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.