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Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production

Overview of attention for article published in African Journalism Studies, January 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#27 of 259)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production
Published in
African Journalism Studies, January 2021
DOI 10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 79 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 8 10%
Lecturer 7 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Student > Master 7 9%
Researcher 5 6%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 30 38%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 24%
Arts and Humanities 13 16%
Computer Science 4 5%
Design 3 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 3%
Other 6 8%
Unknown 32 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 26 February 2021.
All research outputs
#2,132,420
of 33,233,926 outputs
Outputs from African Journalism Studies
#27
of 259 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#47,988
of 569,824 outputs
Outputs of similar age from African Journalism Studies
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,233,926 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 259 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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