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‘Once a miner, always a miner’: Poverty and livelihood diversification in Akwatia, Ghana

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Rural Studies, July 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 (83rd percentile)

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245 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
‘Once a miner, always a miner’: Poverty and livelihood diversification in Akwatia, Ghana
Published in
Journal of Rural Studies, July 2010
DOI 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2010.01.002
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Bangladesh 1 <1%
Unknown 240 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 42 17%
Student > Master 42 17%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 9%
Student > Bachelor 18 7%
Researcher 18 7%
Other 45 18%
Unknown 59 24%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 72 29%
Environmental Science 23 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 15 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 12 5%
Engineering 11 4%
Other 47 19%
Unknown 65 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 01 April 2020.
All research outputs
#4,475,632
of 29,660,600 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Rural Studies
#334
of 1,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,001
of 119,512 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Rural Studies
#1
of 4 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,660,600 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,833 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its peers.
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