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Poverty traps in small-scale mining communities: the case of sub-Saharan Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Canadian Journal of Development Studies, June 2012
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#38 of 492)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (83rd percentile)

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1 news outlet
policy
2 policy sources
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Article details
Title
Poverty traps in small-scale mining communities: the case of sub-Saharan Africa
Published in
Canadian Journal of Development Studies, June 2012
DOI 10.1080/02255189.2012.687352
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
South Africa 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Unknown 107 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 22 20%
Student > Master 19 17%
Researcher 15 14%
Lecturer 5 5%
Student > Postgraduate 4 4%
Other 10 9%
Unknown 36 32%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 16 14%
Environmental Science 15 14%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 10 9%
Engineering 6 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Other 18 16%
Unknown 41 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. 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 21 October 2024.
All research outputs
#2,709,480
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Canadian Journal of Development Studies
#38
of 492 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,941
of 216,145 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Canadian Journal of Development Studies
#1
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 492 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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