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Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 to 2019

Overview of attention for article published in CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, April 2021
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
3 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
12 X users
wikipedia
8 Wikipedia pages
reddit
6 Redditors

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mendeley
2478 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 to 2019
Published in
CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, April 2021
DOI 10.1089/cyber.2020.0134
Pubmed ID
Authors

Thomas Aichner, Matthias Grünfelder, Oswin Maurer, Deni Jegeni

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 2478 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 140 6%
Student > Master 111 4%
Lecturer 90 4%
Student > Ph. D. Student 83 3%
Researcher 50 2%
Other 187 8%
Unknown 1817 73%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 132 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 111 4%
Psychology 59 2%
Computer Science 56 2%
Medicine and Dentistry 44 2%
Other 236 10%
Unknown 1840 74%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 15 November 2025.
All research outputs
#1,113,710
of 34,457,357 outputs
Outputs from CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking
#210
of 1,581 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,622
of 482,877 outputs
Outputs of similar age from CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking
#7
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,457,357 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,581 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 482,877 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 35 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.