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COVID-19 and the case for global development

Overview of attention for article published in World Development, June 2020
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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 (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
3 blogs
policy
4 policy sources
twitter
54 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page

Readers on

mendeley
675 Mendeley

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X Demographics

X Demographics

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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 675 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 %
Unknown 675 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 88 13%
Researcher 60 9%
Student > Bachelor 59 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 58 9%
Other 28 4%
Other 106 16%
Unknown 276 41%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 101 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 49 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 42 6%
Environmental Science 30 4%
Engineering 27 4%
Other 130 19%
Unknown 296 44%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 67. 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 12 October 2023.
All research outputs
#797,254
of 34,259,606 outputs
Outputs from World Development
#221
of 6,197 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,446
of 462,838 outputs
Outputs of similar age from World Development
#7
of 71 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,259,606 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 6,197 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 462,838 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 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 71 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 90% of its contemporaries.