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‘Alternative foods’ and community-based development: Rooibos tea production in South Africa's West Coast Mountains

Overview of attention for article published in Applied Geography, April 2007
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Title
‘Alternative foods’ and community-based development: Rooibos tea production in South Africa's West Coast Mountains
Published in
Applied Geography, April 2007
DOI 10.1016/j.apgeog.2006.11.001
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
South Africa 4 3%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 131 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 21%
Researcher 19 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Professor > Associate Professor 12 9%
Student > Bachelor 10 7%
Other 28 20%
Unknown 22 16%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 32 23%
Environmental Science 28 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 22 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 6%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 23 17%
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 15 August 2018.
All research outputs
#8,231,222
of 27,782,313 outputs
Outputs from Applied Geography
#479
of 1,281 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,259
of 101,201 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Applied Geography
#2
of 3 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,281 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 61% of its peers.
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