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The knowledge politics of genome editing in Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, September 2023
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The knowledge politics of genome editing in Africa
Published in
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, September 2023
DOI 10.1525/elementa.2022.00143
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 24 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 13%
Researcher 3 13%
Professor 2 8%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 14 58%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 17%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 4%
Philosophy 1 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 14 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. 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 18 April 2025.
All research outputs
#2,745,087
of 29,256,195 outputs
Outputs from Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
#163
of 864 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,394
of 369,610 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
#3
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,256,195 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 864 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% 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 369,610 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.