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| Title |
An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants in Wayu Tuka District, East Welega Zone of Oromia Regional State, West Ethiopia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, September 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-9-68 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Moa Megersa, Zemede Asfaw, Ensermu Kelbessa, Abebe Beyene, Bizuneh Woldeab |
| Abstract |
This paper reports an ethnobotanical study that focused on the traditional medicinal plants used by local communities to treat human and livestock ailments. A cross-sectional study was undertaken from September 2009 to June 2010 in Wayu Tuka District of Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The aim of the study is to document medicinal plants used by local people of the study area and the threats currently affecting medicinal plants. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 220 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Botswana | 1 | <1% |
| Ethiopia | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 216 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 23 | 10% |
| Researcher | 17 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 16 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 39 | 18% |
| Unknown | 82 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 24% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 21 | 10% |
| Chemistry | 11 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 4% |
| Other | 28 | 13% |
| Unknown | 88 | 40% |
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 17 November 2023.
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#8,032,262
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#312
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#68,091
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#8
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Altmetric has tracked 24,831,063 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 766 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its peers.
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