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Public toilets and their customers in low-income Accra, Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Environment and Urbanization, September 2015
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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 (85th percentile)
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2 policy sources
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2 X users
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2 Wikipedia pages

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234 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Public toilets and their customers in low-income Accra, Ghana
Published in
Environment and Urbanization, September 2015
DOI 10.1177/0956247815595918
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Ghana 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 232 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 41 18%
Student > Bachelor 27 12%
Researcher 27 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 24 10%
Other 11 5%
Other 24 10%
Unknown 80 34%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 32 14%
Social Sciences 29 12%
Environmental Science 29 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 5%
Other 34 15%
Unknown 87 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 12 September 2026.
All research outputs
#4,441,598
of 34,362,729 outputs
Outputs from Environment and Urbanization
#314
of 966 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,859
of 301,226 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environment and Urbanization
#6
of 9 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,362,729 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 966 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 9 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.