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Success defying all expectations: How and why limited use of force helped to end Somali piracy

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Strategic Studies, June 2023
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#32 of 909)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (87th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
11 news outlets
policy
1 policy source
wikipedia
1 Wikipedia page

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mendeley
17 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Success defying all expectations: How and why limited use of force helped to end Somali piracy
Published in
Journal of Strategic Studies, June 2023
DOI 10.1080/01402390.2023.2227356
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Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 17 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Professor 1 6%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 6%
Student > Bachelor 1 6%
Researcher 1 6%
Unknown 13 76%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 4 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 6%
Unknown 12 71%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 93. 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 10 August 2026.
All research outputs
#570,482
of 34,306,620 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Strategic Studies
#32
of 909 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#9,847
of 410,012 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Strategic Studies
#1
of 8 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,306,620 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 909 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 18.2. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% 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 410,012 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 8 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than all of them