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Is automation stealing manufacturing jobs? Evidence from South Africa’s apparel industry

Overview of attention for article published in Geoforum, October 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
43 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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42 Dimensions

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240 Mendeley
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Title
Is automation stealing manufacturing jobs? Evidence from South Africa’s apparel industry
Published in
Geoforum, October 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.07.002
Authors

Christian Parschau, Jostein Hauge

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 240 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 44 18%
Student > Bachelor 23 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 8%
Lecturer 10 4%
Researcher 6 3%
Other 26 11%
Unknown 113 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 40 17%
Engineering 30 13%
Social Sciences 15 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 4%
Computer Science 7 3%
Other 17 7%
Unknown 121 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 17 March 2024.
All research outputs
#832,508
of 25,576,801 outputs
Outputs from Geoforum
#94
of 2,213 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,503
of 433,536 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Geoforum
#2
of 35 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,576,801 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,213 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 35 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 97% of its contemporaries.