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Book Review: Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, June 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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Title
Book Review: Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media, by Nicholas Diakopoulos
Published in
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/1077699020923613
Authors

Bartosz Wilczek

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 5 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 40%
Researcher 1 20%
Unknown 2 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 20%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 20%
Social Sciences 1 20%
Unknown 2 40%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 08 August 2020.
All research outputs
#4,587,653
of 23,213,531 outputs
Outputs from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#302
of 935 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#111,528
of 398,726 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
#11
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,213,531 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 80th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 935 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% 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 398,726 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its contemporaries.