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Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?

Overview of attention for article published in Agriculture & Food Security, March 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#22 of 329)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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6 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
7 X users
patent
3 patents

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284 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Characteristics of maize cultivars in Africa: How modern are they and how many do smallholder farmers grow?
Published in
Agriculture & Food Security, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40066-017-0108-6
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Unknown 282 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 14%
Researcher 38 13%
Student > Bachelor 23 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 8%
Lecturer 9 3%
Other 31 11%
Unknown 120 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 86 30%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 19 7%
Environmental Science 10 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 2%
Social Sciences 6 2%
Other 30 11%
Unknown 127 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 43. 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 24 June 2025.
All research outputs
#1,154,030
of 32,106,825 outputs
Outputs from Agriculture & Food Security
#22
of 329 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,919
of 356,105 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Agriculture & Food Security
#2
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,106,825 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 329 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 93% 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 356,105 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.