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A ‘Kimberley protest’: Diamond mining, export sanctions, and poverty in Akwatia, Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in African Affairs, April 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 (80th percentile)

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blogs
1 blog
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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mendeley
45 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
A ‘Kimberley protest’: Diamond mining, export sanctions, and poverty in Akwatia, Ghana
Published in
African Affairs, April 2010
DOI 10.1093/afraf/adq020
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 44 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 24%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Researcher 5 11%
Professor 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 8 18%
Unknown 9 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 47%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 13%
Environmental Science 4 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 9%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 8 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. 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 27 October 2020.
All research outputs
#4,976,194
of 28,766,646 outputs
Outputs from African Affairs
#385
of 1,179 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,670
of 117,264 outputs
Outputs of similar age from African Affairs
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,766,646 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 81st percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,179 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.9. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 66% of its peers.
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