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Production risk, pesticide use and GM crop technology in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Applied Economics, October 2008
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Production risk, pesticide use and GM crop technology in South Africa
Published in
Applied Economics, October 2008
DOI 10.1080/00036840600970161
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 4%
Vietnam 1 2%
Unknown 49 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 23%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 19%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Researcher 4 8%
Professor 3 6%
Other 10 19%
Unknown 8 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 16 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 12 23%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Environmental Science 2 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 11 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 2016.
All research outputs
#5,714,724
of 26,265,706 outputs
Outputs from Applied Economics
#329
of 1,966 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,831
of 98,972 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Applied Economics
#5
of 17 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 26,265,706 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 75th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,966 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.4. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% 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 98,972 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 71% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 17 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its contemporaries.