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What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults

Overview of attention for article published in Digital Journalism, September 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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1 blog
twitter
57 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

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2 Mendeley
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Title
What Makes News (Seem) Authentic on Social Media? Indicators from a Qualitative Study of Young Adults
Published in
Digital Journalism, September 2024
DOI 10.1080/21670811.2024.2399622
Authors

Marília Gehrke, Johanna Eggers, Claes de Vreese, David Nicolas Hopmann

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 2 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 50%
Unknown 1 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1 50%
Unknown 1 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. 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 2024.
All research outputs
#856,481
of 26,731,031 outputs
Outputs from Digital Journalism
#66
of 966 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,081
of 199,037 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Digital Journalism
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,731,031 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 966 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 199,037 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 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 91% of its contemporaries.