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Identifying the most productive breeding sites for malaria mosquitoes in The Gambia

Overview of attention for article published in Malaria Journal, April 2009
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (84th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (80th percentile)

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Title
Identifying the most productive breeding sites for malaria mosquitoes in The Gambia
Published in
Malaria Journal, April 2009
DOI 10.1186/1475-2875-8-62
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Authors

Ulrike Fillinger, Heleen Sombroek, Silas Majambere, Emiel van Loon, Willem Takken, Steven W Lindsay

Abstract

Ideally larval control activities should be targeted at sites that generate the most adult vectors, thereby reducing operational costs. Despite the plethora of potential mosquito breeding sites found in the floodplains of the Gambia River, about 150 km from its mouth, during the rainy season, only a small proportion are colonized by anophelines on any day. This study aimed to determine the characteristics of larval habitats most frequently and most densely populated by anopheline larvae and to estimate the numbers of adults produced in different habitats.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 236 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Senegal 1 <1%
Slovakia 1 <1%
Saudi Arabia 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 227 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 49 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 45 19%
Student > Master 37 16%
Student > Bachelor 19 8%
Student > Postgraduate 11 5%
Other 33 14%
Unknown 42 18%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 90 38%
Environmental Science 25 11%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 5%
Social Sciences 7 3%
Other 32 14%
Unknown 54 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. 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 19 April 2009.
All research outputs
#3,677,100
of 22,655,397 outputs
Outputs from Malaria Journal
#869
of 5,533 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,396
of 93,252 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Malaria Journal
#5
of 30 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,655,397 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 83rd percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 5,533 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.8. This one has done well, scoring higher than 84% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 30 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 80% of its contemporaries.