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Quantifying economic activity in the informal recycling sector in South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in South African Journal of Science, September 2021
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (57th percentile)

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Title
Quantifying economic activity in the informal recycling sector in South Africa
Published in
South African Journal of Science, September 2021
DOI 10.17159/sajs.2021/8921
Authors

Linda Godfrey

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 47 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 13%
Researcher 3 6%
Lecturer 3 6%
Student > Bachelor 2 4%
Student > Postgraduate 2 4%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 24 51%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 7 15%
Engineering 5 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 9%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Unspecified 1 2%
Other 1 2%
Unknown 27 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 07 October 2021.
All research outputs
#14,402,752
of 25,392,582 outputs
Outputs from South African Journal of Science
#621
of 1,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#182,923
of 435,697 outputs
Outputs of similar age from South African Journal of Science
#10
of 26 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,392,582 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 42nd percentile – i.e., 42% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,375 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 10.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 435,697 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 26 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.