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The militarization of cattle raiding in South Sudan: how a traditional practice became a tool for political violence

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of International Humanitarian Action, March 2018
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • One of the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#7 of 136)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
7 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
14 X users
facebook
2 Facebook pages

Citations

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35 Dimensions

Readers on

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52 Mendeley
Title
The militarization of cattle raiding in South Sudan: how a traditional practice became a tool for political violence
Published in
Journal of International Humanitarian Action, March 2018
DOI 10.1186/s41018-018-0030-y
Authors

Hannah Wild, Jok Madut Jok, Ronak Patel

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 52 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 15 29%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 6%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 15 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 19 37%
Arts and Humanities 3 6%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 4%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 15 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 73. 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 16 August 2023.
All research outputs
#576,089
of 25,191,684 outputs
Outputs from Journal of International Humanitarian Action
#7
of 136 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#13,313
of 337,566 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of International Humanitarian Action
#2
of 3 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,191,684 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 136 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its peers.
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