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Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, February 2022
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
1 blog
twitter
35 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
39 Mendeley
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Title
Benefits of Diverse News Recommendations for Democracy: A User Study
Published in
Digital Journalism, February 2022
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2021.2021804
Authors

Lucien Heitz, Juliane A. Lischka, Alena Birrer, Bibek Paudel, Suzanne Tolmeijer, Laura Laugwitz, Abraham Bernstein

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 39 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 13%
Other 3 8%
Lecturer 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Professor 3 8%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 18 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 5 13%
Social Sciences 4 10%
Computer Science 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 21 54%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 30 May 2023.
All research outputs
#1,216,683
of 24,931,592 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#130
of 893 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,710
of 518,654 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#6
of 37 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,931,592 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 893 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 37 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.