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Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter

Overview of attention for article published in Political Communication, February 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#43 of 822)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
46 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
113 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
151 Mendeley
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Title
Troll Factories: Manufacturing Specialized Disinformation on Twitter
Published in
Political Communication, February 2020
DOI 10.1080/10584609.2020.1718257
Authors

Darren L. Linvill, Patrick L. Warren

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 46 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 151 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 151 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 13%
Researcher 18 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Professor 10 7%
Other 31 21%
Unknown 42 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 59 39%
Computer Science 17 11%
Arts and Humanities 8 5%
Psychology 5 3%
Linguistics 4 3%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 44 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 91. 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 16 April 2024.
All research outputs
#475,806
of 25,758,695 outputs
Outputs from Political Communication
#43
of 822 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,176
of 475,895 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Communication
#4
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,758,695 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 822 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its contemporaries.