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Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data

Overview of attention for article published in Health Research Policy and Systems, December 2021
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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 (92nd percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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2 news outlets
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16 X users

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Title
Measuring health science research and development in Africa: mapping the available data
Published in
Health Research Policy and Systems, December 2021
DOI 10.1186/s12961-021-00778-y
Pubmed ID
Authors

Clare Wenham, Olivier Wouters, Catherine Jones, Pamela A. Juma, Rhona M. Mijumbi-Deve, Joëlle L. Sobngwi-Tambekou, Justin Parkhurst

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 60 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 10%
Student > Master 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 7%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 26 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 18%
Social Sciences 6 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 7%
Unspecified 2 3%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 27 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,558,732
of 25,774,185 outputs
Outputs from Health Research Policy and Systems
#149
of 1,410 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,420
of 518,486 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Research Policy and Systems
#3
of 34 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,774,185 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,410 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 34 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.