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Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: A qualitative study of seven UK local areas

Overview of attention for article published in Journalism, August 2024
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
facebook
1 Facebook page

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2 Mendeley
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Title
Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: A qualitative study of seven UK local areas
Published in
Journalism, August 2024
DOI 10.1177/14648849241272255
Authors

Steven Barclay, Steven Barnett, Martin Moore, Judith Townend

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 100%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 2 100%
Attention Score in Context

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 04 September 2024.
All research outputs
#1,828,975
of 26,565,554 outputs
Outputs from Journalism
#241
of 1,489 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,866
of 142,116 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journalism
#1
of 37 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,565,554 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 1,489 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% 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 142,116 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 93% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 37 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.