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The rise of injecting drug use in east Africa: a case study from Kenya

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, August 2005
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (66th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
5 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

Citations

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Title
The rise of injecting drug use in east Africa: a case study from Kenya
Published in
Harm Reduction Journal, August 2005
DOI 10.1186/1477-7517-2-12
Pubmed ID
Authors

Susan Beckerleg, Maggie Telfer, Gillian Lewando Hundt

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Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 1%
Unknown 83 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 24%
Researcher 10 12%
Student > Postgraduate 8 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Other 18 21%
Unknown 13 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 28 33%
Social Sciences 12 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 7%
Psychology 5 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 16 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. 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 15 October 2019.
All research outputs
#888,990
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#150
of 1,119 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,074
of 68,827 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#2
of 6 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,371,288 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,119 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 28.7. This one has done well, scoring higher than 86% of its peers.
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