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Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign

Overview of attention for article published in Political Communication, October 2019
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 821)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
23 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
158 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
2 Redditors

Citations

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195 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
359 Mendeley
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Title
Political Astroturfing on Twitter: How to Coordinate a Disinformation Campaign
Published in
Political Communication, October 2019
DOI 10.1080/10584609.2019.1661888
Authors

Franziska B. Keller, David Schoch, Sebastian Stier, JungHwan Yang

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 158 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 359 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 359 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 50 14%
Unspecified 47 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 12%
Student > Bachelor 30 8%
Researcher 26 7%
Other 64 18%
Unknown 100 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 129 36%
Unspecified 48 13%
Computer Science 31 9%
Arts and Humanities 14 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 3%
Other 26 7%
Unknown 102 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 298. 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 13 February 2024.
All research outputs
#118,715
of 25,743,152 outputs
Outputs from Political Communication
#7
of 821 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,347
of 377,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Communication
#3
of 19 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,743,152 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 821 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 22.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 19 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.