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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Fake News is Not a Virus: On Platforms and Their Effects
|
|---|---|
| Published in |
Communication Theory, August 2020
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| DOI | 10.1093/ct/qtaa008 |
| Authors |
C W Anderson |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 49 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 16% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 12% |
| Canada | 4 | 8% |
| Italy | 2 | 4% |
| Portugal | 2 | 4% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| Australia | 1 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | 2% |
| Uganda | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 2 | 4% |
| Unknown | 21 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 22 | 45% |
| Scientists | 22 | 45% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 80 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 80 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 20% |
| Researcher | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 9% |
| Lecturer | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 21 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 33 | 41% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 8% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 6% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 6% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Unknown | 21 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 32. 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 12 January 2024.
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#1,269,308
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Outputs from Communication Theory
#36
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#35,356
of 429,494 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Communication Theory
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,837,817 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 430 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.