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Legitimating falsehood in social media: A discourse analysis of political fake news

Overview of attention for article published in Discourse & Communication, November 2020
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (76th percentile)

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Title
Legitimating falsehood in social media: A discourse analysis of political fake news
Published in
Discourse & Communication, November 2020
DOI 10.1177/1750481320961659
Authors

Ebuka Elias Igwebuike, Lily Chimuanya

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 140 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Researcher 7 5%
Other 27 19%
Unknown 66 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 31 22%
Arts and Humanities 9 6%
Linguistics 7 5%
Computer Science 6 4%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 4%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 67 48%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 24 April 2022.
All research outputs
#4,085,674
of 23,267,128 outputs
Outputs from Discourse & Communication
#54
of 224 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#99,692
of 420,983 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Discourse & Communication
#1
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 224 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
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