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| Title |
Distance decay and persistent health care disparities in South Africa
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12913-014-0541-1 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Zoë M McLaren, Cally Ardington, Murray Leibbrandt |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profile of 1 X user who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 197 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya | 2 | 1% |
| South Africa | 2 | 1% |
| Unknown | 193 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 39 | 20% |
| Researcher | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 18 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 15 | 8% |
| Other | 36 | 18% |
| Unknown | 49 | 25% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 36 | 18% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 34 | 17% |
| Social Sciences | 27 | 14% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 14 | 7% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 28 | 14% |
| Unknown | 52 | 26% |
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 06 May 2022.
All research outputs
#6,410,071
of 22,774,233 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#3,097
of 7,622 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#71,729
of 262,197 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#64
of 158 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,774,233 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 7,622 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 7.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 158 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 57% of its contemporaries.