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YouTube as a source of information on COVID-19: a pandemic of misinformation?

Overview of attention for article published in BMJ Global Health Journal, May 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 (#6 of 3,001)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (98th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
168 news outlets
blogs
11 blogs
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
375 X users
facebook
4 Facebook pages
reddit
1 Redditor

Readers on

mendeley
654 Mendeley
Title
YouTube as a source of information on COVID-19: a pandemic of misinformation?
Published in
BMJ Global Health Journal, May 2020
DOI 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002604
Pubmed ID
Authors

Heidi Oi-Yee Li, Adrian Bailey, David Huynh, James Chan

X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 654 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 654 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 72 11%
Researcher 66 10%
Student > Master 65 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 48 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 34 5%
Other 98 15%
Unknown 271 41%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 85 13%
Social Sciences 72 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 35 5%
Psychology 28 4%
Computer Science 24 4%
Other 111 17%
Unknown 299 46%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1619. 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 22 June 2023.
All research outputs
#6,851
of 25,543,275 outputs
Outputs from BMJ Global Health Journal
#6
of 3,001 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#428
of 421,711 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMJ Global Health Journal
#3
of 123 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,543,275 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 3,001 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 421,711 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 99% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 123 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 98% of its contemporaries.