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Perceptions of minimum age at marriage laws and their enforcement: qualitative evidence from Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2021
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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1 policy source
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2 X users

Citations

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Title
Perceptions of minimum age at marriage laws and their enforcement: qualitative evidence from Malawi
Published in
BMC Public Health, July 2021
DOI 10.1186/s12889-021-11434-z
Pubmed ID
Authors

Andrea J. Melnikas, Nancy Mulauzi, James Mkandawire, Sajeda Amin

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 12 12%
Student > Bachelor 10 10%
Researcher 7 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 5%
Lecturer 4 4%
Other 6 6%
Unknown 54 55%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 9 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 7%
Social Sciences 7 7%
Sports and Recreations 3 3%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 3 3%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 59 60%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. 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 24 November 2022.
All research outputs
#6,707,142
of 25,292,378 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,095
of 16,941 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#128,460
of 433,196 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#199
of 427 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,292,378 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 16,941 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 427 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 53% of its contemporaries.