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Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review

Overview of attention for article published in The Extractive Industries and Society, March 2014
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

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news
1 news outlet
blogs
1 blog
policy
5 policy sources
twitter
1 X user
reddit
1 Redditor

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497 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review
Published in
The Extractive Industries and Society, March 2014
DOI 10.1016/j.exis.2014.01.002
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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 3 <1%
Ghana 2 <1%
Unknown 492 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 81 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 13%
Researcher 46 9%
Student > Bachelor 35 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 22 4%
Other 80 16%
Unknown 168 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 77 15%
Environmental Science 65 13%
Engineering 29 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 29 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 21 4%
Other 98 20%
Unknown 178 36%
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 01 May 2026.
All research outputs
#1,553,920
of 32,565,965 outputs
Outputs from The Extractive Industries and Society
#84
of 936 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,259
of 256,625 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Extractive Industries and Society
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,565,965 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 936 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 11.6. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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