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Greek fire was the most devastating weapon in the Eastern Roman empire. But what was it?

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (73rd percentile)

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Title
Greek fire was the most devastating weapon in the Eastern Roman empire. But what was it?
Published by
The Conversation, July 2026
DOI 10.64628/aa.9xsr46chn
Authors

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Michael B. Charles

Abstract

This Byzantine-era napalm gave their fleets a major tactical advantage over enemy vessels.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. 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 12 August 2026.
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#903,680
of 34,043,423 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#101,698
of 210,314 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,554
of 234,328 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#1,089
of 4,040 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,043,423 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 210,314 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 51% of its peers.
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