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| Title |
Ethnomedicinal use of African pangolins by traditional medical practitioners in Sierra Leone
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-10-76 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Maxwell K Boakye, Darren W Pietersen, Antoinette Kotzé, Desiré L Dalton, Raymond Jansen |
| Abstract |
Pangolins (Manidae) have long been used for traditional medicinal purposes in most parts of sub-Saharan Africa. However, very little is known about the extent of this use, the body parts that are used and the ailments these practices are attempting to cure or alleviate. Pangolin body parts are used extensively and frequently by traditional medical practitioners in Sierra Leone. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 121 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 117 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 24 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 18% |
| Researcher | 15 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 15 | 12% |
| Unknown | 26 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 38 | 31% |
| Environmental Science | 20 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 3% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 21 | 17% |
| Unknown | 29 | 24% |
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 26 May 2020.
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#6,782,080
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#258
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#94,497
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#2
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Altmetric has tracked 22,771,140 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 69th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 732 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 5.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 63% of its peers.
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