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The blurring lines of hacktivism and crowdsourced cyber warfare: How NoName057(16) weaponises distributed denial of service attacks

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, June 2026
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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 (95th percentile)

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Article details
Title
The blurring lines of hacktivism and crowdsourced cyber warfare: How NoName057(16) weaponises distributed denial of service attacks
Published in
Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, June 2026
DOI 10.1177/20438869261462968
Authors

Hadi Ghanbari, Reza Abbasi

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. 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 20 September 2026.
All research outputs
#1,850,667
of 34,363,559 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases
#2
of 78 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,313
of 358,498 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases
#1
of 1 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,363,559 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 78 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 4.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% 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 358,498 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 95% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 1 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