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How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers

Overview of attention for article published in Feminist Media Studies, June 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

Mentioned by

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3 news outlets
twitter
9 X users

Citations

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31 Dimensions

Readers on

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41 Mendeley
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Title
How Instagram’s algorithm is censoring women and vulnerable users but helping online abusers
Published in
Feminist Media Studies, June 2020
DOI 10.1080/14680777.2020.1783805
Authors

Carolina Are

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 41 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 9 22%
Student > Bachelor 5 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 2 5%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 15 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 34%
Arts and Humanities 4 10%
Computer Science 3 7%
Psychology 3 7%
Linguistics 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 15 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 October 2022.
All research outputs
#1,098,589
of 23,001,641 outputs
Outputs from Feminist Media Studies
#85
of 951 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#33,157
of 399,609 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Feminist Media Studies
#8
of 33 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,001,641 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 951 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% 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 399,609 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 33 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.