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How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs

Overview of attention for article published in Policy and Internet, September 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#47 of 261)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (77th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
2 blogs
twitter
8 tweeters

Citations

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1 Dimensions

Readers on

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8 Mendeley
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Title
How does fake news spread? Understanding pathways of disinformation spread through APIs
Published in
Policy and Internet, September 2021
DOI 10.1002/poi3.268
Authors

Lynnette H. X. Ng, Araz Taeihagh

Twitter Demographics

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 8 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 2 25%
Researcher 2 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 13%
Student > Postgraduate 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 50%
Computer Science 1 13%
Arts and Humanities 1 13%
Unknown 2 25%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 22. 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 27 October 2021.
All research outputs
#1,262,589
of 20,133,627 outputs
Outputs from Policy and Internet
#47
of 261 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,245
of 347,357 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Policy and Internet
#3
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 20,133,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 261 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 82% 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 347,357 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 6 of them.
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