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Formalizing artisanal gold mining under the Minamata convention: Previewing the challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Science & Policy, July 2018
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Article details
Title
Formalizing artisanal gold mining under the Minamata convention: Previewing the challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa
Published in
Environmental Science & Policy, July 2018
DOI 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.03.026
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 191 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 31 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 13%
Researcher 21 11%
Student > Bachelor 11 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 32 17%
Unknown 61 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 26 14%
Environmental Science 26 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 11 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 5%
Engineering 10 5%
Other 39 20%
Unknown 69 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 June 2025.
All research outputs
#10,064,119
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Science & Policy
#1,790
of 3,214 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#123,026
of 372,930 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Science & Policy
#35
of 66 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,214 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.0. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% 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 372,930 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 66% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 66 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.