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The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another resource curse?

Overview of attention for article published in Resources Policy, June 2024
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#6 of 1,395)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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news
17 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
4 X users
reddit
1 Redditor

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229 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
The race for critical minerals in Africa: A blessing or another resource curse?
Published in
Resources Policy, June 2024
DOI 10.1016/j.resourpol.2024.105046
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 229 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 20 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 7%
Researcher 14 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 6%
Student > Master 10 4%
Other 32 14%
Unknown 123 54%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 19 8%
Social Sciences 15 7%
Engineering 13 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 4%
Energy 8 3%
Other 45 20%
Unknown 120 52%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 138. 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 21 September 2026.
All research outputs
#381,207
of 34,451,315 outputs
Outputs from Resources Policy
#6
of 1,395 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,312
of 364,936 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Resources Policy
#2
of 13 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,451,315 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 1,395 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 99% 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 364,936 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 98% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.