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Immunized against science: Narrative community building among vaccine refusing/hesitant parents

Overview of attention for article published in Public Understanding of Science, May 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#30 of 1,227)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (93rd percentile)

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news
17 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
5 X users

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mendeley
74 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Immunized against science: Narrative community building among vaccine refusing/hesitant parents
Published in
Public Understanding of Science, May 2020
DOI 10.1177/0963662520921537
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 74 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 8%
Student > Master 6 8%
Researcher 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 3 4%
Other 14 19%
Unknown 36 49%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 8%
Psychology 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 3 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 4%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 32 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 136. 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 25 September 2026.
All research outputs
#386,142
of 34,399,888 outputs
Outputs from Public Understanding of Science
#30
of 1,227 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,751
of 452,265 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Public Understanding of Science
#1
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,399,888 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 1,227 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 452,265 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 16 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.