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Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya

Overview of attention for article published in Agriculture & Food Security, July 2018
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (71st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (63rd percentile)

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Title
Small farmers’ preferences for weather index insurance: insights from Kenya
Published in
Agriculture & Food Security, July 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40066-018-0200-6
Authors

Kenneth W. Sibiko, Prakashan C. Veettil, Matin Qaim

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
India 1 <1%
Unknown 162 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 17%
Researcher 22 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 13%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 22 13%
Unknown 44 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 36 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 12%
Environmental Science 15 9%
Social Sciences 11 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 5%
Other 23 14%
Unknown 50 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 16 September 2019.
All research outputs
#5,502,923
of 23,098,660 outputs
Outputs from Agriculture & Food Security
#89
of 251 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#93,195
of 329,833 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Agriculture & Food Security
#7
of 19 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 251 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 9.6. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 64% of its peers.
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