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Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization

Overview of attention for article published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, August 2018
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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
175 news outlets
book_reviews
1 book reviewer
blogs
28 blogs
policy
6 policy sources
twitter
766 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
4 Google+ users
reddit
5 Redditors
video
1 YouTube creator

Citations

dimensions_citation
1038 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
1619 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
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Title
Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization
Published in
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, August 2018
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1804840115
Pubmed ID
Authors

Christopher A. Bail, Lisa P. Argyle, Taylor W. Brown, John P. Bumpus, Haohan Chen, M. B. Fallin Hunzaker, Jaemin Lee, Marcus Mann, Friedolin Merhout, Alexander Volfovsky

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X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 1619 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 297 18%
Student > Master 203 13%
Student > Bachelor 187 12%
Researcher 144 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 83 5%
Other 237 15%
Unknown 468 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 448 28%
Psychology 178 11%
Computer Science 113 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 69 4%
Arts and Humanities 47 3%
Other 246 15%
Unknown 518 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2154. 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 27 September 2024.
All research outputs
#4,317
of 26,807,699 outputs
Outputs from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#136
of 105,602 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66
of 347,982 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
#5
of 921 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,807,699 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 105,602 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 347,982 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 921 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 99% of its contemporaries.