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Information literacy and fake news: How the field of librarianship can help combat the epidemic of fake news

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#25 of 1,142)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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31 X users
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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
Information literacy and fake news: How the field of librarianship can help combat the epidemic of fake news
Published in
Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.acalib.2020.102218
Authors

Saoirse De Paor, Bahareh Heravi

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 867 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 95 11%
Student > Bachelor 75 9%
Student > Master 43 5%
Lecturer 33 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 2%
Other 67 8%
Unknown 533 61%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 107 12%
Arts and Humanities 41 5%
Computer Science 37 4%
Engineering 26 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 2%
Other 84 10%
Unknown 555 64%
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 30 October 2023.
All research outputs
#1,758,592
of 34,378,656 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Academic Librarianship
#25
of 1,142 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,669
of 454,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Academic Librarianship
#2
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,378,656 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 1,142 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.6. 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 454,002 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 25 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.