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IMF Programs: Do They Work? Can They be Made to Work Better?

Overview of attention for article published in World Development, November 2001
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Article details
Title
IMF Programs: Do They Work? Can They be Made to Work Better?
Published in
World Development, November 2001
DOI 10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00077-8
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Italy 1 1%
India 1 1%
Ireland 1 1%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Unknown 75 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 20%
Student > Master 16 20%
Student > Bachelor 10 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 9%
Researcher 4 5%
Other 15 19%
Unknown 13 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 36 44%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 21 26%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 6%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 1%
Other 1 1%
Unknown 16 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 08 January 2018.
All research outputs
#10,992,752
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from World Development
#4,312
of 6,090 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#24,637
of 62,123 outputs
Outputs of similar age from World Development
#22
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,332,113 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 65th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,090 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.3. This one is in the 28th percentile – i.e., 28% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 62,123 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 59% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 15th percentile – i.e., 15% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.