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Risk-Pooling and Herd Survival: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Gift-Giving System

Overview of attention for article published in Human Ecology, January 2011
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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 (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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Title
Risk-Pooling and Herd Survival: An Agent-Based Model of a Maasai Gift-Giving System
Published in
Human Ecology, January 2011
DOI 10.1007/s10745-010-9364-9
Authors

C. Athena Aktipis, Lee Cronk, Rolando de Aguiar

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 4%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 133 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 28%
Researcher 30 21%
Student > Master 20 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 6%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 11 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 41 29%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 19%
Environmental Science 15 11%
Psychology 11 8%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 6%
Other 21 15%
Unknown 17 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 27 April 2023.
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#3,506,259
of 25,149,126 outputs
Outputs from Human Ecology
#158
of 821 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,376
of 193,589 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Ecology
#2
of 8 outputs
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