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The smartphone as a lifeline: an exploration of refugees’ use of mobile communication technologies during their flight

Overview of attention for article published in Media, Culture & Society, November 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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
29 X users

Citations

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110 Mendeley
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Title
The smartphone as a lifeline: an exploration of refugees’ use of mobile communication technologies during their flight
Published in
Media, Culture & Society, November 2018
DOI 10.1177/0163443718813486
Authors

Amanda Alencar, Katerina Kondova, Wannes Ribbens

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 110 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 16%
Researcher 13 12%
Student > Master 11 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 6%
Student > Postgraduate 6 5%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 36 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 33 30%
Arts and Humanities 10 9%
Computer Science 4 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Engineering 4 4%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 39 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 37. 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 11 October 2023.
All research outputs
#1,110,477
of 25,998,826 outputs
Outputs from Media, Culture & Society
#70
of 1,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,891
of 452,430 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Media, Culture & Society
#3
of 20 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,998,826 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 1,421 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% 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 452,430 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 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 20 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its contemporaries.