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A tale of two cybers - how threat reporting by cybersecurity firms systematically underrepresents threats to civil society

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology & Politics, June 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 (#4 of 428)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
twitter
237 X users
reddit
4 Redditors

Citations

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59 Dimensions

Readers on

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145 Mendeley
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Title
A tale of two cybers - how threat reporting by cybersecurity firms systematically underrepresents threats to civil society
Published in
Journal of Information Technology & Politics, June 2020
DOI 10.1080/19331681.2020.1776658
Authors

Lennart Maschmeyer, Ronald J. Deibert, Jon R. Lindsay

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 145 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 14%
Student > Master 17 12%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 5%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 55 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 21%
Computer Science 21 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 4%
Unspecified 3 2%
Other 13 9%
Unknown 61 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 190. 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 19 March 2022.
All research outputs
#210,975
of 25,552,933 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology & Politics
#4
of 428 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,138
of 434,548 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology & Politics
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,552,933 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 428 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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