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What Makes News Newsworthy: An Experimental Test of Where a News Story Is Published (or Not) and Its Perceived Newsworthiness

Overview of attention for article published in The International Journal of Press/Politics, August 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
twitter
18 X users

Citations

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4 Dimensions

Readers on

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15 Mendeley
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Title
What Makes News Newsworthy: An Experimental Test of Where a News Story Is Published (or Not) and Its Perceived Newsworthiness
Published in
The International Journal of Press/Politics, August 2020
DOI 10.1177/1940161220947321
Authors

Hans J. G. Hassell

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 15 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 27%
Researcher 2 13%
Professor 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 5 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 40%
Arts and Humanities 1 7%
Computer Science 1 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 7%
Physics and Astronomy 1 7%
Other 1 7%
Unknown 4 27%
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 17 June 2021.
All research outputs
#1,366,291
of 25,208,845 outputs
Outputs from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#102
of 515 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,865
of 405,609 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The International Journal of Press/Politics
#5
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,208,845 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 515 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% 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 405,609 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.