Report for: Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plant use by traditional healers in Oshikoto region, Namibia

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Title	Ethnobotanical study of indigenous knowledge on medicinal plant use by traditional healers in Oshikoto region, Namibia
Published in	Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, March 2011
DOI	10.1186/1746-4269-7-10
Pubmed ID	21388534
Authors	Ahmad Cheikhyoussef, Martin Shapi, Kenneth Matengu, Hina Mu Ashekele
Abstract	The objective of this study was to establish a regional profile of the indigenous knowledge system (IKS) for medicinal plant use and cultural practices associated with the healing process of these plants by traditional healers in the Oshikoto region, Namibia.

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Country	Count	As %
United Kingdom	1	25%
United States	1	25%
Namibia	1	25%
Unknown	1	25%

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Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	4	100%

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Country	Count	As %
Uganda	1	<1%
Indonesia	1	<1%
Italy	1	<1%
Kenya	1	<1%
India	1	<1%
Namibia	1	<1%
United States	1	<1%
Unknown	269	97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Ph. D. Student	51	18%
Researcher	40	14%
Student > Master	39	14%
Student > Bachelor	23	8%
Student > Doctoral Student	19	7%
Other	47	17%
Unknown	57	21%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	80	29%
Environmental Science	26	9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science	22	8%
Social Sciences	18	7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	12	4%
Other	49	18%
Unknown	69	25%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 10 July 2022.

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So far Altmetric has tracked 735 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 78% of its peers.

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