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Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, September 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
6 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
60 X users
wikipedia
4 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
1 Google+ user
reddit
12 Redditors
bluesky
2 Bluesky users

Readers on

mendeley
548 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion
Published in
PLOS ONE, September 2018
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0203958
Pubmed ID
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 548 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 75 14%
Student > Master 66 12%
Researcher 49 9%
Student > Bachelor 39 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 4%
Other 84 15%
Unknown 214 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 122 22%
Computer Science 34 6%
Psychology 32 6%
Arts and Humanities 24 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 20 4%
Other 82 15%
Unknown 234 43%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 131. 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 12 April 2026.
All research outputs
#397,609
of 34,208,280 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#5,257
of 224,029 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#6,671
of 382,536 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#83
of 3,580 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,208,280 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 224,029 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 17.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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