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Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance

Overview of attention for article published in Big Data & Society, August 2025
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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 (83rd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Article details
Title
Afrofuturist ambiguities: Inclusion and consolidation in South African digital finance
Published in
Big Data & Society, August 2025
DOI 10.1177/20539517251351321
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 41 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 2 5%
Other 2 5%
Student > Postgraduate 2 5%
Student > Bachelor 1 2%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 2%
Other 2 5%
Unknown 31 76%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Unspecified 2 5%
Computer Science 2 5%
Social Sciences 2 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Environmental Science 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 32 78%
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 08 August 2025.
All research outputs
#5,948,857
of 32,790,512 outputs
Outputs from Big Data & Society
#622
of 924 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,304
of 340,379 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Big Data & Society
#8
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,790,512 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 924 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 30.7. This one is in the 32nd percentile – i.e., 32% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 340,379 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 83% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 30 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 73% of its contemporaries.