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Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Tobacco Control, November 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 (90th percentile)

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4 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
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Article details
Title
Framing the policy debate over tobacco control legislation and tobacco taxation in South Africa
Published in
Tobacco Control, November 2021
DOI 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056675
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 58 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 10%
Lecturer 5 9%
Student > Master 5 9%
Librarian 2 3%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 3%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 30 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 5 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 5%
Social Sciences 3 5%
Other 8 14%
Unknown 30 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 25 November 2025.
All research outputs
#1,064,607
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Tobacco Control
#554
of 4,018 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,610
of 562,515 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Tobacco Control
#5
of 53 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 4,018 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 36.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% 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 562,515 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 53 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 90% of its contemporaries.