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Elevated soil and blood lead levels with increasing residential proximity to a mine tailings facility in Soweto, South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Science of the Total Environment, August 2022
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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 (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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10 news outlets

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47 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Elevated soil and blood lead levels with increasing residential proximity to a mine tailings facility in Soweto, South Africa
Published in
Science of the Total Environment, August 2022
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158158
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 4 9%
Student > Master 4 9%
Researcher 4 9%
Other 2 4%
Lecturer 2 4%
Other 6 13%
Unknown 25 53%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 6 13%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Design 2 4%
Philosophy 1 2%
Other 4 9%
Unknown 28 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 28 March 2025.
All research outputs
#658,562
of 34,575,175 outputs
Outputs from Science of the Total Environment
#909
of 36,923 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,954
of 456,798 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science of the Total Environment
#46
of 1,011 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,575,175 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 36,923 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 456,798 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1,011 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 95% of its contemporaries.