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Debunking in a world of tribes

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, July 2017
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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 (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
34 news outlets
blogs
4 blogs
twitter
190 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
4 Google+ users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
208 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
361 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Title
Debunking in a world of tribes
Published in
PLOS ONE, July 2017
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0181821
Pubmed ID
Authors

Fabiana Zollo, Alessandro Bessi, Michela Del Vicario, Antonio Scala, Guido Caldarelli, Louis Shekhtman, Shlomo Havlin, Walter Quattrociocchi

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 190 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 361 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Luxembourg 1 <1%
Unknown 354 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 14%
Researcher 50 14%
Student > Master 47 13%
Student > Bachelor 33 9%
Other 27 7%
Other 67 19%
Unknown 85 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 69 19%
Computer Science 43 12%
Psychology 41 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 17 5%
Arts and Humanities 17 5%
Other 78 22%
Unknown 96 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 422. 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 24 October 2023.
All research outputs
#69,663
of 26,017,215 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#1,164
of 225,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,493
of 330,396 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#17
of 4,036 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,017,215 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 225,486 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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