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South–South research collaboration of countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Overview of attention for article published in Scientometrics, December 2009
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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 (83rd percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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Title
South–South research collaboration of countries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
Published in
Scientometrics, December 2009
DOI 10.1007/s11192-009-0120-0
Authors

Nelius Boshoff

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
South Africa 2 2%
Belgium 1 <1%
Croatia 1 <1%
Unknown 113 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 26 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 20%
Student > Master 10 8%
Librarian 8 7%
Student > Postgraduate 8 7%
Other 27 22%
Unknown 18 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 30%
Arts and Humanities 10 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 7%
Computer Science 8 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 7%
Other 27 22%
Unknown 24 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 30 June 2020.
All research outputs
#4,869,636
of 24,037,774 outputs
Outputs from Scientometrics
#906
of 2,793 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#27,161
of 171,559 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Scientometrics
#5
of 10 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,037,774 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 79th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,793 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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