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It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy

Overview of attention for article published in Social Media + Society, July 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 (90th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
7 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

dimensions_citation
13 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
99 Mendeley
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Title
It Takes a Village to Combat a Fake News Army: Wikipedia’s Community and Policies for Information Literacy
Published in
Social Media + Society, July 2020
DOI 10.1177/2056305120937309
Authors

Zachary J. McDowell, Matthew A. Vetter

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 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 99 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 99 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Librarian 9 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 8%
Lecturer 7 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 7%
Unspecified 5 5%
Other 26 26%
Unknown 37 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 30 30%
Arts and Humanities 6 6%
Unspecified 5 5%
Psychology 4 4%
Computer Science 3 3%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 39 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. 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 January 2024.
All research outputs
#1,422,258
of 25,907,102 outputs
Outputs from Social Media + Society
#275
of 1,114 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#40,209
of 434,454 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Social Media + Society
#19
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,907,102 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,114 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% 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 434,454 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 90% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 70 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 72% of its contemporaries.