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‘‘This one caught us unaware’: Disaster politics and institutions during Cyclone Freddy in Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, February 2025
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (95th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
bluesky
1 Bluesky user

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mendeley
56 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘‘This one caught us unaware’: Disaster politics and institutions during Cyclone Freddy in Malawi
Published in
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, February 2025
DOI 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.105144
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 56 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 11%
Lecturer 5 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Unspecified 2 4%
Researcher 2 4%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 33 59%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 5 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 7%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Unspecified 2 4%
Engineering 2 4%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 33 59%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 38. 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 26 May 2025.
All research outputs
#1,207,184
of 28,583,110 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
#151
of 2,176 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#16,226
of 352,772 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
#6
of 61 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,583,110 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 95th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,176 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 61 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.