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| Title |
Suicidal behaviour across the African continent: a review of the literature
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, June 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-606 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Becky Mars, Stephanie Burrows, Heidi Hjelmeland, David Gunnell |
| Abstract |
Suicide is a major cause of premature mortality worldwide, but data on its epidemiology in Africa, the world's second most populous continent, are limited. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 12 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 42% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 17% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 8% |
| Australia | 1 | 8% |
| South Africa | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 2 | 17% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 67% |
| Scientists | 3 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 321 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Grenada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 316 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 61 | 19% |
| Researcher | 31 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 27 | 8% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 25 | 8% |
| Other | 44 | 14% |
| Unknown | 106 | 33% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 69 | 21% |
| Psychology | 36 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 34 | 11% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 2% |
| Other | 35 | 11% |
| Unknown | 115 | 36% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 February 2024.
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#3,621,892
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#4,445
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#34,650
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#72
of 289 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,373,627 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 17,509 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 74% of its peers.
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