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Do Forests Help Rural Households Adapt to Climate Variability? Evidence from Southern Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in World Development, September 2010
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Article details
Title
Do Forests Help Rural Households Adapt to Climate Variability? Evidence from Southern Malawi
Published in
World Development, September 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.03.005
Authors

Monica Fisher, Moushumi Chaudhury, Brent McCusker

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Kenya 2 <1%
India 2 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 249 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 54 21%
Researcher 51 20%
Student > Master 37 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 11 4%
Other 37 14%
Unknown 57 22%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 56 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 35 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 34 13%
Social Sciences 29 11%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 13 5%
Other 26 10%
Unknown 66 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 18. 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 July 2022.
All research outputs
#2,184,373
of 27,782,313 outputs
Outputs from World Development
#1,123
of 5,593 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,764
of 113,296 outputs
Outputs of similar age from World Development
#7
of 28 outputs
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