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Measurement of innovation in the informal sector in Africa: the importance to industrial policy

Overview of attention for article published in Innovation and Development, February 2021
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#17 of 195)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (85th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Measurement of innovation in the informal sector in Africa: the importance to industrial policy
Published in
Innovation and Development, February 2021
DOI 10.1080/2157930x.2021.1887614
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 82 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 10%
Researcher 8 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 9%
Unspecified 5 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 5%
Other 18 22%
Unknown 32 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 16 20%
Social Sciences 9 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 7%
Unspecified 5 6%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 34 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 19 September 2024.
All research outputs
#2,800,849
of 28,377,962 outputs
Outputs from Innovation and Development
#17
of 195 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#66,632
of 463,885 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Innovation and Development
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,377,962 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 195 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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