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Health challenges in Africa and the way forward

Overview of attention for article published in International Archives of Medicine, December 2008
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#3 of 103)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
9 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
4 X users

Citations

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79 Dimensions

Readers on

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216 Mendeley
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Title
Health challenges in Africa and the way forward
Published in
International Archives of Medicine, December 2008
DOI 10.1186/1755-7682-1-27
Pubmed ID
Authors

Joses Muthuri Kirigia, Saidou Pathe Barry

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 216 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Cameroon 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Unknown 213 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 53 25%
Student > Postgraduate 22 10%
Student > Bachelor 22 10%
Researcher 16 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 6%
Other 36 17%
Unknown 54 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 39 18%
Social Sciences 19 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 10 5%
Arts and Humanities 9 4%
Other 58 27%
Unknown 63 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. 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 13 June 2023.
All research outputs
#516,439
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from International Archives of Medicine
#3
of 103 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,507
of 181,066 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Archives of Medicine
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,374,647 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 103 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 12.1. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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