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Child Labour in African Artisanal Mining Communities: Experiences from Northern Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Development & Change, June 2010
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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 (85th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Child Labour in African Artisanal Mining Communities: Experiences from Northern Ghana
Published in
Development & Change, June 2010
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01646.x
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
India 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Unknown 209 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 37 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 14%
Student > Bachelor 20 9%
Researcher 20 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 5%
Other 32 15%
Unknown 64 30%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 42 20%
Environmental Science 21 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 13 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 5%
Other 44 21%
Unknown 69 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 November 2019.
All research outputs
#5,035,757
of 34,404,538 outputs
Outputs from Development & Change
#391
of 1,314 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,285
of 150,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Development & Change
#1
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,404,538 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,314 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 70% of its peers.
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