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Ensuring sustainability in plastics use in Africa: consumption, waste generation, and projections

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Sciences Europe, September 2019
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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 (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (88th percentile)

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2 news outlets
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1 blog
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Title
Ensuring sustainability in plastics use in Africa: consumption, waste generation, and projections
Published in
Environmental Sciences Europe, September 2019
DOI 10.1186/s12302-019-0254-5
Authors

Joshua O. Babayemi, Innocent C. Nnorom, Oladele Osibanjo, Roland Weber

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 442 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 66 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 11%
Student > Bachelor 39 9%
Researcher 31 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 5%
Other 65 15%
Unknown 170 38%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 62 14%
Engineering 39 9%
Chemical Engineering 19 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 18 4%
Other 85 19%
Unknown 201 45%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 25. 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 07 June 2022.
All research outputs
#1,426,965
of 24,417,958 outputs
Outputs from Environmental Sciences Europe
#81
of 543 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#31,227
of 351,597 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Sciences Europe
#4
of 25 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 24,417,958 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 543 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 85% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 351,597 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 25 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.