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#funnypoliticians: How Do Political Figures Use Humor on Twitter?

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Sociology, April 2022
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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 (81st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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13 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

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Title
#funnypoliticians: How Do Political Figures Use Humor on Twitter?
Published in
Frontiers in Sociology, April 2022
DOI 10.3389/fsoc.2022.788742
Pubmed ID
Authors

Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel, Stéphanie Alenda, Thomas E. Ford, Andrew R. Olah, Patricio D. Navia, Catalina Argüello-Gutiérrez

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 17 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 4 24%
Student > Bachelor 4 24%
Student > Master 1 6%
Researcher 1 6%
Student > Postgraduate 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 6 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 35%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 12%
Psychology 1 6%
Arts and Humanities 1 6%
Unknown 7 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 21 March 2023.
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#3,769,076
of 23,567,572 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Sociology
#184
of 863 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#81,978
of 444,038 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Sociology
#10
of 55 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 863 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.