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Profiling microplastics in a forgotten river system in Southern Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, March 2025
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (64th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Profiling microplastics in a forgotten river system in Southern Africa
Published in
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, March 2025
DOI 10.1007/s10661-025-13800-5
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 40 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 4 10%
Student > Master 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 5%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 5%
Other 1 3%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 26 65%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 7 18%
Unspecified 4 10%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 26 65%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 April 2026.
All research outputs
#11,420,178
of 32,427,972 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
#1,051
of 4,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#112,659
of 348,288 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
#17
of 58 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,427,972 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,097 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.6. This one is in the 49th percentile – i.e., 49% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 58 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its contemporaries.