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Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Overview of attention for article published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, April 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#8 of 641)
  • 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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news
39 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
51 X users
patent
1 patent
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
1 Redditor

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mendeley
228 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Cross-Platform State Propaganda: Russian Trolls on Twitter and YouTube during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Published in
The International Journal of Press/Politics, April 2020
DOI 10.1177/1940161220912682
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 228 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 12%
Student > Master 23 10%
Student > Bachelor 22 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 4%
Professor > Associate Professor 10 4%
Other 30 13%
Unknown 106 46%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 65 29%
Computer Science 14 6%
Arts and Humanities 9 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Engineering 5 2%
Other 18 8%
Unknown 109 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 355. 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 29 August 2026.
All research outputs
#115,091
of 34,427,148 outputs
Outputs from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#8
of 641 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#3,322
of 431,871 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#1
of 15 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,427,148 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 641 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 33.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 431,871 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 15 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its contemporaries.