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Getting by on credit: how district health managers in Ghana cope with the untimely release of funds

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, December 2006
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  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (53rd percentile)

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1 X user

Citations

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Title
Getting by on credit: how district health managers in Ghana cope with the untimely release of funds
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, December 2006
DOI 10.1186/1472-6963-6-105
Pubmed ID
Authors

Augustine D Asante, Anthony B Zwi, Maria T Ho

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 2 2%
United States 1 1%
Uganda 1 1%
Unknown 93 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 30%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 13%
Researcher 11 11%
Student > Bachelor 7 7%
Other 6 6%
Other 14 14%
Unknown 17 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 13%
Social Sciences 10 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 9 9%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 6 6%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 22 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. 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 22 April 2014.
All research outputs
#7,991,864
of 25,455,127 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,952
of 8,681 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,486
of 168,373 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#30
of 63 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,455,127 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 67th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,681 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.2. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 53% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 63 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.