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What drives news sharing behaviour among social media users? A relational communication model from the social capital perspective

Overview of attention for article published in International Sociology, November 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 (80th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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16 X users

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39 Mendeley
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Title
What drives news sharing behaviour among social media users? A relational communication model from the social capital perspective
Published in
International Sociology, November 2020
DOI 10.1177/0268580920961323
Authors

Oberiri Destiny Apuke, Bahiyah Omar

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 13%
Lecturer 4 10%
Researcher 3 8%
Unspecified 2 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 2 5%
Other 5 13%
Unknown 18 46%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 23%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 8%
Unspecified 2 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 5%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 4 10%
Unknown 18 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 11 November 2021.
All research outputs
#3,857,206
of 25,830,005 outputs
Outputs from International Sociology
#125
of 642 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#102,091
of 526,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Sociology
#9
of 23 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,830,005 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 642 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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