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‘Transforming Freetown’: Dilemmas of planning and development in a West African City

Overview of attention for article published in Cities, June 2020
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

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Article details
Title
‘Transforming Freetown’: Dilemmas of planning and development in a West African City
Published in
Cities, June 2020
DOI 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102694
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 114 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Student > Master 6 5%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 48 42%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 6%
Arts and Humanities 7 6%
Environmental Science 6 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 5 4%
Other 21 18%
Unknown 51 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 13 May 2020.
All research outputs
#7,556,119
of 27,789,879 outputs
Outputs from Cities
#664
of 2,062 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#145,790
of 438,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cities
#18
of 45 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,789,879 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,062 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 67% of its peers.
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 438,297 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 45 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 60% of its contemporaries.