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The Matthew Effect in social media news use: Assessing inequalities in news exposure and news engagement on social network sites (SNS)

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, April 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
32 X users

Citations

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73 Dimensions

Readers on

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63 Mendeley
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Title
The Matthew Effect in social media news use: Assessing inequalities in news exposure and news engagement on social network sites (SNS)
Published in
Journalism, April 2020
DOI 10.1177/1464884920915374
Authors

Anna Sophie Kümpel

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 63 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 16%
Researcher 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 3 5%
Lecturer 3 5%
Other 11 17%
Unknown 24 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 30%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Arts and Humanities 4 6%
Psychology 3 5%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 27 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 2022.
All research outputs
#1,399,924
of 25,576,801 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#159
of 1,397 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,568
of 405,583 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#2
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,576,801 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,397 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% 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 405,583 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 23 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 95% of its contemporaries.