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The Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency Tweets Appeared in U.S. News as Vox Populi

Overview of attention for article published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, December 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#13 of 544)
  • 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)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
280 X users

Citations

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61 Dimensions

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65 Mendeley
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Title
The Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: How Russia’s Internet Research Agency Tweets Appeared in U.S. News as Vox Populi
Published in
The International Journal of Press/Politics, December 2019
DOI 10.1177/1940161219895215
Authors

Josephine Lukito, Jiyoun Suk, Yini Zhang, Larissa Doroshenko, Sang Jung Kim, Min-Hsin Su, Yiping Xia, Deen Freelon, Chris Wells

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 65 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 65 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 25%
Researcher 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Master 4 6%
Professor 4 6%
Other 5 8%
Unknown 25 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 35%
Arts and Humanities 4 6%
Computer Science 4 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Psychology 2 3%
Other 2 3%
Unknown 28 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 224. 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 18 July 2022.
All research outputs
#174,865
of 25,744,802 outputs
Outputs from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#13
of 544 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,098
of 480,107 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#2
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,744,802 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 544 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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