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When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, November 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#14 of 924)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
15 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
15 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

dimensions_citation
14 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
36 Mendeley
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Title
When and How User Comments Affect News Readers’ Personal Opinion: Perceived Public Opinion and Perceived News Position as Mediators
Published in
Digital Journalism, November 2020
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2020.1837638
Authors

Eun-Ju Lee, Yoon Jae Jang, Myojung Chung

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 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 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 6%
Professor 2 6%
Researcher 2 6%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 15 42%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 44%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Psychology 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 15 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 137. 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 18 November 2022.
All research outputs
#303,931
of 25,462,162 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#14
of 924 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#8,723
of 440,516 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#1
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,462,162 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 924 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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