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Analysis of the plastic-bag levy in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Resources, Conservation & Recycling, September 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (84th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
4 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

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376 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Analysis of the plastic-bag levy in South Africa
Published in
Resources, Conservation & Recycling, September 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.resconrec.2012.06.009
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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Sweden 2 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 372 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 74 20%
Student > Bachelor 50 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 41 11%
Researcher 37 10%
Student > Postgraduate 15 4%
Other 57 15%
Unknown 102 27%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 60 16%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 34 9%
Engineering 32 9%
Social Sciences 24 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 23 6%
Other 91 24%
Unknown 112 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 50. 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 2023.
All research outputs
#1,067,284
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Resources, Conservation & Recycling
#153
of 3,523 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,125
of 225,948 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Resources, Conservation & Recycling
#2
of 13 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 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 3,523 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 13 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.