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The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Review of Development Economics, September 2020
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Article details
Title
The effects of international remittances on expenditure patterns of the left‐behind households in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Published in
Review of Development Economics, September 2020
DOI 10.1111/rode.12721
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 105 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 9%
Researcher 5 5%
Lecturer 4 4%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 4%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 55 52%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 26 25%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Arts and Humanities 3 3%
Mathematics 3 3%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 56 53%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 January 2026.
All research outputs
#7,014,075
of 32,442,164 outputs
Outputs from Review of Development Economics
#210
of 750 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#128,442
of 443,747 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Review of Development Economics
#2
of 18 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,442,164 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 74th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 750 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% 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 443,747 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 18 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.