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Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives

Overview of attention for article published in Contemporary Security Policy, June 2022
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#9 of 512)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (72nd percentile)

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news
8 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
3 policy sources
twitter
22 X users
podcasts
1 podcast

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160 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives
Published in
Contemporary Security Policy, June 2022
DOI 10.1080/13523260.2022.2082633
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 160 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 8%
Student > Bachelor 10 6%
Student > Master 8 5%
Researcher 7 4%
Other 5 3%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 100 63%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 41 26%
Arts and Humanities 4 3%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 3%
Unspecified 2 1%
Linguistics 2 1%
Other 5 3%
Unknown 102 64%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 97. 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 01 November 2025.
All research outputs
#552,483
of 34,355,701 outputs
Outputs from Contemporary Security Policy
#9
of 512 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,373
of 472,904 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Contemporary Security Policy
#3
of 11 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,355,701 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 512 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 98% 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 472,904 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 97% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 11 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its contemporaries.