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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1235367 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Solomon M. Hsiang, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel |
| Abstract |
A rapidly growing body of research examines whether human conflict can be affected by climatic changes. Drawing from archaeology, criminology, economics, geography, history, political science, and psychology, we assemble and analyze the 60 most rigorous quantitative studies and document, for the first time, a striking convergence of results. We find strong causal evidence linking climatic events to human conflict across a range of spatial and temporal scales and across all major regions of the world. The magnitude of climate's influence is substantial: for each one standard deviation (1σ) change in climate toward warmer temperatures or more extreme rainfall, median estimates indicate that the frequency of interpersonal violence rises 4% and the frequency of intergroup conflict rises 14%. Because locations throughout the inhabited world are expected to warm 2σ to 4σ by 2050, amplified rates of human conflict could represent a large and critical impact of anthropogenic climate change. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 688 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 146 | 21% |
| Japan | 55 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 47 | 7% |
| Canada | 30 | 4% |
| Australia | 12 | 2% |
| Saudi Arabia | 10 | 1% |
| Germany | 9 | 1% |
| France | 7 | 1% |
| Spain | 6 | <1% |
| Other | 68 | 10% |
| Unknown | 298 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 564 | 82% |
| Scientists | 94 | 14% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 22 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,836 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 34 | 2% |
| Germany | 11 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 3 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| Finland | 3 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 22 | 1% |
| Unknown | 1745 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 425 | 23% |
| Researcher | 304 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 238 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 162 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 89 | 5% |
| Other | 287 | 16% |
| Unknown | 331 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 265 | 14% |
| Social Sciences | 260 | 14% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 240 | 13% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 141 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 140 | 8% |
| Other | 369 | 20% |
| Unknown | 421 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2199. 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 08 February 2024.
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#3,931
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Outputs from Science
#210
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#9
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#2
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