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African solutions to African problems: a narrative of corruption in postcolonial Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Cogent Social Sciences, March 2024
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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)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (76th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
reddit
2 Redditors
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
62 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
African solutions to African problems: a narrative of corruption in postcolonial Africa
Published in
Cogent Social Sciences, March 2024
DOI 10.1080/23311886.2024.2327133
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 4 6%
Other 3 5%
Researcher 3 5%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 2%
Lecturer 1 2%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 47 76%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 5%
Arts and Humanities 2 3%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 2%
Engineering 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 49 79%
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 24 September 2026.
All research outputs
#3,253,740
of 34,447,360 outputs
Outputs from Cogent Social Sciences
#113
of 828 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,673
of 381,276 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cogent Social Sciences
#9
of 39 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,447,360 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 828 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 39 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 76% of its contemporaries.