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| Title |
A quantitative synthesis of the medicinal ethnobotany of the Malinké of Mali and the Asháninka of Peru, with a new theoretical framework
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| Published in |
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, December 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1746-4269-3-36 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nathaniel Bletter |
| Abstract |
Although ethnomedically and taxonomically guided searches for new medicinal plants can improve the percentage of plants found containing active compounds when compared to random sampling, ethnobotany has fulfilled little of its promise in the last few decades to deliver a bounty of new, laboratory-proven medicinal plants and compounds. It is quite difficult to test, isolate, and elucidate the structure and mechanism of compounds from the plethora of new medicinal plant uses described each year with limited laboratory time and resources and the high cost of clinical trials of new drug candidates. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Peru | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 136 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 3 | 2% |
| United States | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Ecuador | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 122 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 15% |
| Researcher | 17 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 6% |
| Other | 29 | 21% |
| Unknown | 19 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 45 | 33% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 12% |
| Environmental Science | 13 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 5% |
| Other | 20 | 15% |
| Unknown | 26 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 23 July 2015.
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