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Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Computational Social Science, September 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#2 of 155)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
44 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
twitter
102 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page
reddit
1 Redditor

Citations

dimensions_citation
105 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
151 Mendeley
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Title
Social influence and unfollowing accelerate the emergence of echo chambers
Published in
Journal of Computational Social Science, September 2020
DOI 10.1007/s42001-020-00084-7
Authors

Kazutoshi Sasahara, Wen Chen, Hao Peng, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 151 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 151 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 16%
Student > Master 22 15%
Student > Bachelor 15 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 11 7%
Researcher 8 5%
Other 24 16%
Unknown 47 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 26 17%
Social Sciences 24 16%
Psychology 9 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 5%
Arts and Humanities 5 3%
Other 23 15%
Unknown 57 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 427. 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 20 December 2023.
All research outputs
#69,002
of 25,870,142 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Computational Social Science
#2
of 155 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,307
of 428,351 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Computational Social Science
#1
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,870,142 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 155 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 29.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% of its peers.
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