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Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, November 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 2,134)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
42 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
168 tweeters

Citations

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60 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
169 Mendeley
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Title
Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation
Published in
New Media & Society, November 2020
DOI 10.1177/1461444820969893
Authors

Sacha Altay, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Hugo Mercier

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 169 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 169 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 12%
Student > Master 17 10%
Unspecified 14 8%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 35 21%
Unknown 51 30%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 45 27%
Psychology 18 11%
Unspecified 15 9%
Computer Science 6 4%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Other 20 12%
Unknown 60 36%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 453. 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 03 October 2022.
All research outputs
#54,238
of 23,865,786 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#7
of 2,134 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,766
of 512,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#2
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,865,786 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,134 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 512,324 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 44 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 97% of its contemporaries.