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Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Studies, May 2016
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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 (93rd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (94th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
2 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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64 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Guyana Gold: A Unique Resource Curse?
Published in
Journal of Development Studies, May 2016
DOI 10.1080/00220388.2016.1160066
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 64 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 19%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 9%
Student > Bachelor 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 4 6%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 23 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 11 17%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 14%
Environmental Science 8 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 6%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 22 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 31. 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 16 September 2024.
All research outputs
#1,630,734
of 34,545,128 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Studies
#120
of 2,341 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,409
of 337,026 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Studies
#4
of 70 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,545,128 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 2,341 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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