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Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research

Overview of attention for article published in Health Research Policy and Systems, October 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)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Article details
Title
Data protection legislation in Africa and pathways for enhancing compliance in big data health research
Published in
Health Research Policy and Systems, October 2024
DOI 10.1186/s12961-024-01230-7
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 106 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 10 9%
Student > Master 9 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 6%
Lecturer 5 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 4%
Other 9 8%
Unknown 63 59%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 10 9%
Computer Science 9 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 2 2%
Other 15 14%
Unknown 62 58%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. 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 09 December 2024.
All research outputs
#3,229,785
of 33,241,971 outputs
Outputs from Health Research Policy and Systems
#356
of 1,597 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#38,422
of 339,834 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Research Policy and Systems
#4
of 22 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 33,241,971 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 1,597 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 339,834 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 22 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its contemporaries.