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Solar electric cooking in Africa: Where will the transition happen first?

Overview of attention for article published in Energy Research & Social Science, June 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
2 policy sources
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12 X users
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1 Redditor

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Article details
Title
Solar electric cooking in Africa: Where will the transition happen first?
Published in
Energy Research & Social Science, June 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.erss.2018.01.019
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 271 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 49 18%
Student > Master 32 12%
Researcher 31 11%
Lecturer 14 5%
Student > Bachelor 13 5%
Other 35 13%
Unknown 97 36%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Energy 41 15%
Engineering 39 14%
Social Sciences 19 7%
Environmental Science 13 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 4%
Other 33 12%
Unknown 115 42%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. 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 05 July 2025.
All research outputs
#2,070,486
of 34,307,719 outputs
Outputs from Energy Research & Social Science
#538
of 3,404 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,828
of 373,975 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Energy Research & Social Science
#7
of 76 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,307,719 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,404 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 20.1. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 76 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its contemporaries.