↓ Skip to main content

Diversionary conflict: Demonizing enemies or demonstrating competence?

Overview of attention for article published in Conflict Management and Peace Science, August 2015
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

Mentioned by

blogs
2 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
2 X users
wikipedia
5 Wikipedia pages

Readers on

mendeley
36 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Article details
Title
Diversionary conflict: Demonizing enemies or demonstrating competence?
Published in
Conflict Management and Peace Science, August 2015
DOI 10.1177/0738894215593723
Authors

Login to access the Attention Digest and the Sentiment Analysis related to this output.

Timeline Attention over time Attention Score history
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
Activity
Login to access the full charts related to this output.
X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley demographics

Mendeley demographics

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 36 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Login to view Mendeley reader trends over time.

Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 36 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 33%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Bachelor 4 11%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 11 31%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 23 64%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Unknown 11 31%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 20. 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 04 November 2026.
All research outputs
#2,252,583
of 32,332,113 outputs
Outputs from Conflict Management and Peace Science
#68
of 483 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#23,674
of 293,841 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Conflict Management and Peace Science
#1
of 12 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 32,332,113 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 483 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% 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 293,841 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 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 12 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.