↓ Skip to main content

The hibernating mobile phone: Dead storage as a barrier to efficient electronic waste recovery

Overview of attention for article published in Waste Management, January 2017
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#30 of 2,791)
  • 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)

Mentioned by

news
8 news outlets
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
7 X users

Readers on

mendeley
328 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
The hibernating mobile phone: Dead storage as a barrier to efficient electronic waste recovery
Published in
Waste Management, January 2017
DOI 10.1016/j.wasman.2016.12.023
Pubmed ID
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 328 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 327 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 43 13%
Student > Master 40 12%
Researcher 36 11%
Student > Bachelor 22 7%
Professor > Associate Professor 14 4%
Other 55 17%
Unknown 118 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 47 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 43 13%
Environmental Science 36 11%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 3%
Design 8 2%
Other 45 14%
Unknown 138 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 86. 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 February 2025.
All research outputs
#545,592
of 27,650,130 outputs
Outputs from Waste Management
#30
of 2,791 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,550
of 424,552 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Waste Management
#2
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,650,130 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 2,791 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.0. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 424,552 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 45 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.