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The role of varietal attributes on adoption of improved seed varieties: the case of sorghum in Kenya

Overview of attention for article published in Agriculture & Food Security, May 2014
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Title
The role of varietal attributes on adoption of improved seed varieties: the case of sorghum in Kenya
Published in
Agriculture & Food Security, May 2014
DOI 10.1186/2048-7010-3-9
Authors

Anne Gesare Timu, Richard Mulwa, Julius Okello, Mercy Kamau

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 2%
Kenya 2 2%
India 1 <1%
Unknown 117 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 36 30%
Student > Ph. D. Student 20 16%
Researcher 18 15%
Student > Bachelor 11 9%
Lecturer 4 3%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 27 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 44 36%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 22 18%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Environmental Science 6 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 2%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 33 27%
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 14 July 2016.
All research outputs
#6,373,626
of 23,314,015 outputs
Outputs from Agriculture & Food Security
#105
of 253 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#60,228
of 228,611 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Agriculture & Food Security
#4
of 4 outputs
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