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Predicting secondary school dropout among South African adolescents: A survival analysis approach

Overview of attention for article published in South African Journal of Education, May 2017
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#10 of 113)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)

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4 news outlets
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1 Wikipedia page

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Article details
Title
Predicting secondary school dropout among South African adolescents: A survival analysis approach
Published in
South African Journal of Education, May 2017
DOI 10.15700/saje.v37n2a1353
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 249 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 54 22%
Student > Bachelor 20 8%
Researcher 19 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 6%
Other 28 11%
Unknown 96 39%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 39 16%
Psychology 23 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 5%
Arts and Humanities 11 4%
Other 51 20%
Unknown 98 39%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 36. 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 26 August 2023.
All research outputs
#1,410,742
of 34,411,289 outputs
Outputs from South African Journal of Education
#10
of 113 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,059
of 364,460 outputs
Outputs of similar age from South African Journal of Education
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,411,289 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 113 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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