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Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, June 2022
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (54th percentile)

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1 blog
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9 X users

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Title
Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: A Typology
Published in
Digital Journalism, June 2022
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2022.2086594
Authors

Muhammad Fahad Humayun, Patrick Ferrucci

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 6 17%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Master 2 6%
Researcher 2 6%
Other 4 11%
Unknown 16 44%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 44%
Arts and Humanities 3 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 3%
Unknown 15 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 29 November 2022.
All research outputs
#2,804,031
of 25,721,020 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#409
of 937 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,110
of 445,769 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#10
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,721,020 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 937 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 445,769 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its contemporaries.