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What do people learn from following the news? A diary study on the influence of media use on knowledge of current news stories

Overview of attention for article published in European Journal of Communication, December 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#33 of 606)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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57 X users

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Title
What do people learn from following the news? A diary study on the influence of media use on knowledge of current news stories
Published in
European Journal of Communication, December 2020
DOI 10.1177/0267323120978724
Authors

Kathleen Beckers, Peter Van Aelst, Pascal Verhoest, Leen d’Haenens

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 5 14%
Lecturer 4 11%
Professor 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 15 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 39%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 11%
Psychology 2 6%
Computer Science 1 3%
Sports and Recreations 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 13 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 August 2021.
All research outputs
#1,105,026
of 25,452,734 outputs
Outputs from European Journal of Communication
#33
of 606 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#29,890
of 518,896 outputs
Outputs of similar age from European Journal of Communication
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,452,734 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 606 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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