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Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic due to Artisanal Gold Mining in Zamfara, Nigeria

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health Perspectives, January 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 (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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9 news outlets
policy
3 policy sources
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Article details
Title
Environmental Remediation to Address Childhood Lead Poisoning Epidemic due to Artisanal Gold Mining in Zamfara, Nigeria
Published in
Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2016
DOI 10.1289/ehp.1510145
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 162 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 14%
Student > Master 17 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Lecturer 8 5%
Other 24 15%
Unknown 69 43%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 10%
Environmental Science 11 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 6%
Social Sciences 8 5%
Engineering 6 4%
Other 40 25%
Unknown 71 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 92. 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 August 2026.
All research outputs
#574,778
of 34,233,466 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Health Perspectives
#598
of 10,362 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,936
of 447,434 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health Perspectives
#9
of 55 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,233,466 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 10,362 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 27.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 55 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 83% of its contemporaries.