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Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, November 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 (#7 of 2,322)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
44 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
163 X users

Citations

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95 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
189 Mendeley
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Title
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation
Published in
New Media & Society, November 2020
DOI 10.1177/1461444820969893
Authors

Sacha Altay, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Hugo Mercier

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 163 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 189 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 189 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 12%
Researcher 22 12%
Student > Master 20 11%
Student > Bachelor 12 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 33 17%
Unknown 69 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 51 27%
Psychology 19 10%
Computer Science 8 4%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 4 2%
Other 22 12%
Unknown 80 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 463. 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 28 March 2024.
All research outputs
#59,787
of 25,722,279 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#7
of 2,322 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,847
of 527,930 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#1
of 46 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,722,279 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,322 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 46 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 97% of its contemporaries.