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Safeguarding livelihoods or exacerbating poverty? Artisanal mining and formalization in West Africa

Overview of attention for article published in Natural Resources Forum, November 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#40 of 388)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)

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policy
4 policy sources

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mendeley
173 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Safeguarding livelihoods or exacerbating poverty? Artisanal mining and formalization in West Africa
Published in
Natural Resources Forum, November 2011
DOI 10.1111/j.1477-8947.2011.01407.x
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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 173 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 170 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 33 19%
Student > Master 27 16%
Researcher 17 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 8 5%
Other 27 16%
Unknown 50 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 35 20%
Environmental Science 24 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 11 6%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 11 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 8 5%
Other 32 18%
Unknown 52 30%
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
#3,350,653
of 29,669,692 outputs
Outputs from Natural Resources Forum
#40
of 388 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#22,232
of 265,365 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Natural Resources Forum
#1
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 29,669,692 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 88th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 388 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its peers.
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