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Promoting food security and livelihoods for urban poor through the informal sector: a case study of street food vendors in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India

Overview of attention for article published in Food Security, October 2014
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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 (84th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (82nd percentile)

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2 policy sources
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Citations

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128 Mendeley
Title
Promoting food security and livelihoods for urban poor through the informal sector: a case study of street food vendors in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Published in
Food Security, October 2014
DOI 10.1007/s12571-014-0391-z
Authors

Kirit Patel, David Guenther, Kyle Wiebe, Ruth-Anne Seburn

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Korea, Republic of 1 <1%
Unknown 127 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 26 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 15%
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Postgraduate 6 5%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 5%
Other 17 13%
Unknown 40 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 19%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Other 29 23%
Unknown 42 33%
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 01 August 2018.
All research outputs
#3,228,531
of 22,766,595 outputs
Outputs from Food Security
#240
of 734 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,001
of 256,316 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Food Security
#3
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,766,595 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 734 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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