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How can social media analytics assist authorities in pandemic-related policy decisions? Insights from Australian states and territories

Overview of attention for article published in Health Information Science and Systems, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 147)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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5 news outlets
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1 blog
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134 Mendeley
Article details
Title
How can social media analytics assist authorities in pandemic-related policy decisions? Insights from Australian states and territories
Published in
Health Information Science and Systems, October 2020
DOI 10.1007/s13755-020-00121-9
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 134 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 13%
Lecturer 14 10%
Student > Master 9 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 6%
Other 5 4%
Other 23 17%
Unknown 58 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 18 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 10%
Computer Science 11 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 6%
Psychology 4 3%
Other 20 15%
Unknown 60 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 05 January 2021.
All research outputs
#1,154,616
of 32,430,365 outputs
Outputs from Health Information Science and Systems
#3
of 147 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,819
of 457,287 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Information Science and Systems
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,430,365 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 147 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.9. 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 457,287 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.