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Small-scale mining, poverty and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview

Overview of attention for article published in Resources Policy, March 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (75th percentile)

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4 policy sources

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mendeley
355 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Small-scale mining, poverty and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: An overview
Published in
Resources Policy, March 2009
DOI 10.1016/j.resourpol.2008.12.001
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 355 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 2 <1%
Belgium 2 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Uganda 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 342 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 58 16%
Student > Master 51 14%
Student > Bachelor 30 8%
Researcher 26 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 5%
Other 70 20%
Unknown 101 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 71 20%
Environmental Science 45 13%
Engineering 23 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 21 6%
Other 67 19%
Unknown 106 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 11 February 2025.
All research outputs
#3,352,865
of 29,686,237 outputs
Outputs from Resources Policy
#177
of 1,238 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#10,972
of 124,084 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Resources Policy
#2
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,686,237 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,238 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its contemporaries.