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Going Viral: How Fear, Socio-Cognitive Polarization and Problem-Solving Influence Fake News Detection and Proliferation During COVID-19 Pandemic

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Communication, January 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#39 of 1,263)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
5 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
52 X users
reddit
2 Redditors

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mendeley
100 Mendeley
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Title
Going Viral: How Fear, Socio-Cognitive Polarization and Problem-Solving Influence Fake News Detection and Proliferation During COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in
Frontiers in Communication, January 2021
DOI 10.3389/fcomm.2020.562588
Authors

Carola Salvi, Paola Iannello, Alice Cancer, Mason McClay, Sabrina Rago, Joseph E. Dunsmoor, Alessandro Antonietti

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 100 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 8 8%
Student > Master 8 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 7%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 5%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 47 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 17 17%
Social Sciences 14 14%
Computer Science 3 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Other 11 11%
Unknown 49 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 84. 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 26 April 2024.
All research outputs
#543,176
of 26,485,427 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Communication
#39
of 1,263 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#15,272
of 538,959 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Communication
#5
of 51 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,485,427 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,263 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 51 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 90% of its contemporaries.