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Does Microfinance Work as a Recovery Tool After Disasters? Evidence from the 2004 Tsunami

Overview of attention for article published in World Development, June 2011
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (52nd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Does Microfinance Work as a Recovery Tool After Disasters? Evidence from the 2004 Tsunami
Published in
World Development, June 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.10.020
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 1%
Italy 2 1%
Sri Lanka 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Unknown 155 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 23%
Student > Master 26 16%
Researcher 19 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 7%
Lecturer 10 6%
Other 32 20%
Unknown 25 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 50 31%
Business, Management and Accounting 28 17%
Social Sciences 24 15%
Environmental Science 9 6%
Engineering 5 3%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 27 17%
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 01 November 2025.
All research outputs
#3,003,957
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from World Development
#1,702
of 6,197 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#12,810
of 162,180 outputs
Outputs of similar age from World Development
#15
of 40 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 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 6,197 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 69% of its peers.
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