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Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Development Studies, January 2009
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (64th percentile)

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4 policy sources

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266 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Are Alternative Livelihood Projects Alleviating Poverty in Mining Communities? Experiences from Ghana
Published in
Journal of Development Studies, January 2009
DOI 10.1080/00220380802553057
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
United States 2 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Unknown 259 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 19%
Student > Master 34 13%
Student > Bachelor 24 9%
Researcher 21 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 38 14%
Unknown 87 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 63 24%
Environmental Science 36 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 5%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 12 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 3%
Other 39 15%
Unknown 94 35%
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
#3,778,784
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Development Studies
#432
of 2,340 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,640
of 250,795 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Development Studies
#2
of 14 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 2,340 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.
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