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Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Human Behaviour, June 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 (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
59 news outlets
blogs
5 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
219 X users
facebook
14 Facebook pages
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
googleplus
7 Google+ users

Citations

dimensions_citation
112 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
276 Mendeley
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Title
Limited individual attention and online virality of low-quality information
Published in
Nature Human Behaviour, June 2017
DOI 10.1038/s41562-017-0132
Authors

Xiaoyan Qiu, Diego F. M. Oliveira, Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 219 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 276 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 276 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 55 20%
Student > Master 31 11%
Researcher 27 10%
Student > Bachelor 17 6%
Other 14 5%
Other 60 22%
Unknown 72 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 54 20%
Computer Science 37 13%
Psychology 23 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 4%
Physics and Astronomy 8 3%
Other 56 20%
Unknown 86 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 651. 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 25 April 2023.
All research outputs
#33,848
of 25,732,188 outputs
Outputs from Nature Human Behaviour
#88
of 1,746 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#669
of 329,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Human Behaviour
#2
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,732,188 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 1,746 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 158.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 51 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.