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The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, November 2023
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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41 X users
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1 Facebook page

Citations

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Title
The story of social media: evolving news coverage of social media in American politics, 2006–2021
Published in
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, November 2023
DOI 10.1093/jcmc/zmad039
Authors

Daniel S Lane, Hannah Overbye-Thompson, Emilija Gagrčin

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 5 29%
Student > Master 3 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 6%
Other 1 6%
Unknown 5 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 5 29%
Social Sciences 4 24%
Arts and Humanities 2 12%
Computer Science 1 6%
Unknown 5 29%
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 18 December 2023.
All research outputs
#1,745,626
of 25,888,065 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
#144
of 706 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,961
of 367,697 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,888,065 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 706 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 367,697 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.