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Ethical minerals: Fairer trade for whom?

Overview of attention for article published in Resources Policy, September 2016
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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 (85th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (85th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Ethical minerals: Fairer trade for whom?
Published in
Resources Policy, September 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.resourpol.2016.05.002
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Colombia 1 <1%
Unknown 146 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 15%
Student > Master 18 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 10%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Other 21 14%
Unknown 50 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 28 19%
Environmental Science 19 13%
Engineering 11 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 10 7%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 3%
Other 19 13%
Unknown 55 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 11 July 2025.
All research outputs
#3,411,876
of 28,994,264 outputs
Outputs from Resources Policy
#181
of 1,188 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#46,746
of 317,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Resources Policy
#3
of 21 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,994,264 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,188 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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