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Kenya and Somalia row over offshore rights is rooted in the carve up of Africa

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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
Kenya and Somalia row over offshore rights is rooted in the carve up of Africa
Published by
The Conversation, March 2019
DOI 10.64628/aaj.snms7utsp
Authors

Rossi, Christopher, Christopher R. Rossi

Abstract

The legacy of colonialism’s unfinished business has now migrated to the Indian Ocean.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 151. 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 30 August 2025.
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#323,615
of 31,703,772 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#38,057
of 205,149 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,983
of 380,811 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#619
of 1,983 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 31,703,772 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 205,149 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.2. This one has done well, scoring higher than 77% 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 380,811 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 98% of its contemporaries.
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