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Fake news propagates differently from real news even at early stages of spreading

Overview of attention for article published in EPJ Data Science, April 2020
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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 (86th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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Title
Fake news propagates differently from real news even at early stages of spreading
Published in
EPJ Data Science, April 2020
DOI 10.1140/epjds/s13688-020-00224-z
Authors

Zilong Zhao, Jichang Zhao, Yukie Sano, Orr Levy, Hideki Takayasu, Misako Takayasu, Daqing Li, Junjie Wu, Shlomo Havlin

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Mendeley readers

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 286 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 286 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 18%
Student > Master 42 15%
Researcher 24 8%
Student > Bachelor 15 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 3%
Other 44 15%
Unknown 100 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Computer Science 79 28%
Social Sciences 25 9%
Engineering 18 6%
Physics and Astronomy 13 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 3%
Other 35 12%
Unknown 107 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 21 June 2022.
All research outputs
#2,076,079
of 25,597,324 outputs
Outputs from EPJ Data Science
#179
of 453 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,114
of 399,262 outputs
Outputs of similar age from EPJ Data Science
#3
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,597,324 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 91st percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 453 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 38.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% 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 399,262 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.