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The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo

Overview of attention for article published in Communication Research, June 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (82nd percentile)

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21 X users

Citations

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Title
The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo
Published in
Communication Research, June 2020
DOI 10.1177/0093650220933729
Authors

Tian Yang, Yilang Peng

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 63 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 24%
Student > Master 10 16%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Lecturer 5 8%
Researcher 2 3%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 20 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 33%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 11%
Psychology 5 8%
Arts and Humanities 4 6%
Mathematics 1 2%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 21 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. 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 01 July 2020.
All research outputs
#2,670,630
of 24,654,957 outputs
Outputs from Communication Research
#212
of 767 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#68,994
of 404,138 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication Research
#7
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,654,957 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 89th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 767 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% 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 404,138 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one.