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Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Political Geography, January 2007
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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 (88th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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3 policy sources

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269 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Strained relations: A critical analysis of the mining conflict in Prestea, Ghana
Published in
Political Geography, January 2007
DOI 10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.09.001
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Colombia 2 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Bangladesh 1 <1%
Unknown 258 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 50 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 14%
Student > Bachelor 25 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 24 9%
Researcher 23 9%
Other 39 14%
Unknown 69 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 63 23%
Environmental Science 31 12%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 8%
Business, Management and Accounting 16 6%
Engineering 16 6%
Other 48 18%
Unknown 73 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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.
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#4,480,419
of 29,686,237 outputs
Outputs from Political Geography
#404
of 1,476 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,088
of 191,943 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Political Geography
#1
of 5 outputs
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