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Article details
Title
Could farmer interest in a diversity of seed attributes explain adoption plateaus for modern maize varieties in Malawi?
Published in
Food Policy, October 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.05.001
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X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 207 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
Mexico 2 <1%
Kenya 2 <1%
Vietnam 1 <1%
Thailand 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 194 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 35 17%
Researcher 33 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 28 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 18 9%
Lecturer 13 6%
Other 36 17%
Unknown 44 21%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 64 31%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 40 19%
Social Sciences 21 10%
Environmental Science 8 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 2%
Other 17 8%
Unknown 52 25%
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 01 January 2020.
All research outputs
#8,231,222
of 27,782,313 outputs
Outputs from Food Policy
#1,145
of 1,879 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#59,039
of 197,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Food Policy
#2
of 7 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 27,782,313 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,879 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.8. This one is in the 37th percentile – i.e., 37% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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 197,476 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 68% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 7 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 5 of them.