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Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker

Overview of attention for article published in Work, Employment and Society, August 2021
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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8 news outlets
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9 X users

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15 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Organising Against Precarity: The Life of a South African Labour Broker Worker
Published in
Work, Employment and Society, August 2021
DOI 10.1177/09500170211015081
Authors

Carin Runciman, Khongelani Hlungwani

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 15 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 3 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 20%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Other 1 7%
Student > Master 1 7%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 5 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 6 40%
Social Sciences 4 27%
Unknown 5 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. 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 21 February 2022.
All research outputs
#758,957
of 28,738,224 outputs
Outputs from Work, Employment and Society
#64
of 1,300 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,904
of 443,294 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Work, Employment and Society
#1
of 27 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,738,224 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,300 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 443,294 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 27 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 96% of its contemporaries.