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Food insecurity in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM wave 5

Overview of attention for article published in Development Southern Africa, April 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#16 of 647)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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9 news outlets
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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168 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Food insecurity in South Africa: Evidence from NIDS-CRAM wave 5
Published in
Development Southern Africa, April 2022
DOI 10.1080/0376835x.2022.2062299
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 168 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 10%
Researcher 13 8%
Student > Bachelor 12 7%
Lecturer 8 5%
Student > Postgraduate 7 4%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 91 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 14 8%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 5%
Psychology 7 4%
Arts and Humanities 6 4%
Other 27 16%
Unknown 94 56%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 65. 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 05 November 2025.
All research outputs
#767,339
of 29,696,064 outputs
Outputs from Development Southern Africa
#16
of 647 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,213
of 461,167 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Development Southern Africa
#1
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,696,064 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 647 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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