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Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post?

Overview of attention for article published in Social Media + Society, December 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 (86th percentile)
  • Average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source

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17 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
1 Redditor
video
1 YouTube creator

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105 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Mobilizing Users: Does Exposure to Misinformation and Its Correction Affect Users’ Responses to a Health Misinformation Post?
Published in
Social Media + Society, December 2020
DOI 10.1177/2056305120978377
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 105 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 10%
Student > Master 9 9%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Lecturer 5 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 54 51%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 23%
Psychology 5 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Unspecified 2 2%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 60 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 10 March 2026.
All research outputs
#4,058,359
of 34,347,181 outputs
Outputs from Social Media + Society
#553
of 1,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#79,393
of 570,098 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Media + Society
#30
of 43 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,347,181 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,430 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
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