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Geophagy practices and the content of chemical elements in the soil eaten by pregnant women in artisanal and small scale gold mining communities in Tanzania

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2014
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Title
Geophagy practices and the content of chemical elements in the soil eaten by pregnant women in artisanal and small scale gold mining communities in Tanzania
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, April 2014
DOI 10.1186/1471-2393-14-144
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Authors

Elias C Nyanza, Mary Joseph, Shahirose S Premji, Deborah SK Thomas, Cynthia Mannion

Abstract

Geophagy, a form of pica, is the deliberate consumption of soil and is relatively common across Sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, pregnant women commonly eat soil sticks sold in the market (pemba), soil from walls of houses, termite mounds, and ground soil (kichuguu). The present study examined geophagy practices of pregnant women in a gold mining area of Geita District in northwestern Tanzania, and also examined the potential for exposure to chemical elements by testing soil samples.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 150 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 28 19%
Student > Master 26 17%
Researcher 18 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 6%
Other 17 11%
Unknown 39 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 10%
Social Sciences 14 9%
Environmental Science 11 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 5%
Other 31 21%
Unknown 45 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. 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 27 September 2023.
All research outputs
#1,991,854
of 25,563,770 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#493
of 4,817 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,571
of 240,228 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#16
of 81 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,563,770 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 4,817 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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