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Opportunities and constraints to legume diversification for sustainable maize production on smallholder farms in Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems, May 2012
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (71st percentile)

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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
Opportunities and constraints to legume diversification for sustainable maize production on smallholder farms in Malawi
Published in
Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems, May 2012
DOI 10.1017/s1742170512000178
Authors

Wezi G. Mhango, Sieglinde S. Snapp, George Y.K. Phiri

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Philippines 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 268 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 51 19%
Student > Bachelor 39 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 12%
Researcher 24 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 4%
Other 35 13%
Unknown 78 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 97 36%
Environmental Science 24 9%
Social Sciences 15 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 14 5%
Engineering 7 3%
Other 25 9%
Unknown 91 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 28 May 2024.
All research outputs
#6,497,660
of 34,404,538 outputs
Outputs from Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems
#107
of 397 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#39,943
of 213,037 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Renewable Agriculture & Food Systems
#2
of 7 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 397 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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