↓ Skip to main content

Tracking the polio virus down the Congo River: a case study on the use of Google Earth™ in public health planning and mapping

Overview of attention for article published in International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2009
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

Mentioned by

policy
2 policy sources
facebook
1 Facebook page

Citations

dimensions_citation
59 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
133 Mendeley
citeulike
1 CiteULike
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Tracking the polio virus down the Congo River: a case study on the use of Google Earth™ in public health planning and mapping
Published in
International Journal of Health Geographics, January 2009
DOI 10.1186/1476-072x-8-4
Pubmed ID
Authors

Raoul Kamadjeu

Abstract

The use of GIS in public health is growing, a consequence of a rapidly evolving technology and increasing accessibility to a wider audience. Google Earth (GE) is becoming an important mapping infrastructure for public health. However, generating traditional public health maps for GE is still beyond the reach of most public health professionals. In this paper, we explain, through the example of polio eradication activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, how we used GE Earth as a planning tool and we share the methods used to generate public health maps.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 5 4%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Taiwan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 122 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 21%
Researcher 25 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 10%
Student > Bachelor 12 9%
Student > Postgraduate 11 8%
Other 25 19%
Unknown 19 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 24%
Social Sciences 20 15%
Computer Science 12 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 9 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 7%
Other 27 20%
Unknown 24 18%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. 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 26 March 2018.
All research outputs
#5,338,984
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from International Journal of Health Geographics
#181
of 654 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,711
of 184,441 outputs
Outputs of similar age from International Journal of Health Geographics
#4
of 11 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 78th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 654 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 184,441 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 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 63% of its contemporaries.