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An investigation into the player development pathway among youth soccer players in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in South African Journal of Sports Medicine, August 2025
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
An investigation into the player development pathway among youth soccer players in South Africa
Published in
South African Journal of Sports Medicine, August 2025
DOI 10.17159/2078-516x/2025/v37i1a20183
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 1 11%
Lecturer 1 11%
Unknown 7 78%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 1 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 11%
Sports and Recreations 1 11%
Unknown 6 67%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. 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 27 November 2025.
All research outputs
#18,992,714
of 29,251,460 outputs
Outputs from South African Journal of Sports Medicine
#124
of 207 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#74,909
of 186,949 outputs
Outputs of similar age from South African Journal of Sports Medicine
#1
of 5 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 207 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 5.0. This one is in the 32nd percentile – i.e., 32% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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