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Analytics-Driven Journalism? Editorial Metrics and the Reconfiguration of Online News Production Practices in African Newsrooms"

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, January 2019
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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 (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

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5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
9 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

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68 Dimensions

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61 Mendeley
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Title
Analytics-Driven Journalism? Editorial Metrics and the Reconfiguration of Online News Production Practices in African Newsrooms"
Published in
Digital Journalism, January 2019
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2018.1533788
Authors

Dumisani Moyo, Admire Mare, Trust Matsilele

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 61 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 18%
Student > Bachelor 8 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 11%
Professor 7 11%
Researcher 5 8%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 14 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 26 43%
Arts and Humanities 11 18%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Philosophy 2 3%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 13 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 49. 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 February 2020.
All research outputs
#869,163
of 25,489,496 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#71
of 924 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,866
of 446,938 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#3
of 16 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,489,496 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 924 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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