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By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election

Overview of attention for article published in The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, July 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 868)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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5 news outlets
twitter
40 X users
wikipedia
3 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors

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132 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
By any memes necessary? Small political acts, incidental exposure and memes during the 2017 UK general election
Published in
The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/1369148120930594
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 132 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 10 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Student > Master 8 6%
Lecturer 5 4%
Researcher 5 4%
Other 19 14%
Unknown 76 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 21%
Arts and Humanities 8 6%
Psychology 6 5%
Unspecified 3 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 2%
Other 10 8%
Unknown 75 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 72. 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 12 September 2026.
All research outputs
#761,096
of 34,764,228 outputs
Outputs from The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
#33
of 868 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,188
of 459,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
#1
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,764,228 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 868 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 459,982 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 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 92% of its contemporaries.