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Mapping the Invisible and Real "African" Economy: Urban E-Waste Circuitry

Overview of attention for article published in Urban Geography, May 2013
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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 (94th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (96th percentile)

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2 news outlets
policy
4 policy sources

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252 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Mapping the Invisible and Real "African" Economy: Urban E-Waste Circuitry
Published in
Urban Geography, May 2013
DOI 10.2747/0272-3638.33.1.1
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 251 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 56 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 15%
Student > Bachelor 26 10%
Researcher 20 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 4%
Other 35 14%
Unknown 67 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 50 20%
Environmental Science 40 16%
Engineering 16 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 3%
Other 52 21%
Unknown 79 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. 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 07 March 2025.
All research outputs
#1,708,030
of 32,572,863 outputs
Outputs from Urban Geography
#61
of 1,048 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,930
of 231,875 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Urban Geography
#10
of 250 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,572,863 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,048 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% 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 231,875 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 94% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 250 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.