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Impactful Papers from the Journal
‘Journal of Strategic Studies’
1
Altmetric Attention Score: 307
Russian nuclear strategy and conventional inferiority
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-10-14
Political Science
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 143
Organizational strategy and its implications for strategic studies: A review essay
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-11-16
Political Science
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 131
A mercenary army of the poor? Technological change and the demographic composition of the post-9/11 U.S. military
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-01-30
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 131
China’s quest for quantum advantage—Strategic and defense innovation at a new frontier
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-12-27
Political Science
5
Altmetric Attention Score: 112
Publicly attributing cyber attacks: a framework
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-03-10
Political Science
6
Altmetric Attention Score: 84
‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-09-23
Political Science
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 66
A nuclear education: the origins of NATO’s Nuclear Planning Group
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-09-10
Political Science
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 65
Slow failure: Understanding America’s quagmire in Afghanistan
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-09-18
Political Science
9
Altmetric Attention Score: 62
Strategic failure in Afghanistan
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-11-26
Political Science
10
Altmetric Attention Score: 61
Defence innovation and the 4th industrial revolution in Russia
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-12-14
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 61
Conspiracy theories in Russian security thinking
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-01-31
Political Science
12
Altmetric Attention Score: 59
Emerging technologies and strategic stability in peacetime, crisis, and war
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
13
Altmetric Attention Score: 54
Multilateralism as a tool: Exploring French military cooperation in the Sahel
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-04
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 54
The currency of covert action: British special political action in Latin America, 1961-64
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-12-01
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 54
France’s military operations in Africa: Between institutional pragmatism and agnosticism
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-06
Political Science
16
Altmetric Attention Score: 52
The logic of American nuclear strategy: Why strategic superiority matters
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-08-25
Political Science
17
Altmetric Attention Score: 51
The capability/vulnerability paradox and military revolutions: Implications for computing, cyber, and the onset of war
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
18
Altmetric Attention Score: 49
What is a military innovation and why it matters
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-03-23
Political Science
19
Altmetric Attention Score: 45
Are they reading schelling in Beijing? The dimensions, drivers, and risks of nuclear-conventional entanglement in China
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-11-13
Political Science
20
Altmetric Attention Score: 44
The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-04-03
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 44
When speed kills: Lethal autonomous weapon systems, deterrence and stability
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
22
Altmetric Attention Score: 43
A legitimate sphere of influence: Understanding France’s turn to multilateralism in Africa
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-19
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 43
Asymmetric arms control and strategic stability: Scenarios for limiting hypersonic glide vehicles
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
24
Altmetric Attention Score: 41
China’s military strategy for a ‘new era’: Some change, more continuity, and tantalizing hints
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-03-02
Political Science
25
Altmetric Attention Score: 40
Mutually assured surveillance at risk: Anti-satellite weapons and cold war arms control
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-01-26
Political Science
26
Altmetric Attention Score: 39
Michael Howard and Clausewitz
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-02-07
Political Science
27
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
France’s interventions in Mali and the Sahel: A historical institutionalist perspective
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-16
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
Who won the Second World War and why should you care? Reassessing Stalin’s War 75 years after victory
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-12-18
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 38
The defense innovation machine: Why the U.S. will remain on the cutting edge
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-06-25
Political Science
30
Altmetric Attention Score: 37
Understanding battlefield coalitions
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-01-28
Political Science
31
Altmetric Attention Score: 35
Nodal defence: the changing structure of U.S. alliance systems in Europe and East Asia
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-07-29
Political Science
32
Altmetric Attention Score: 34
Revisiting plausible deniability
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-03
Political Science
33
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
War in the city: Urban ethnic geography and combat effectiveness
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-10-17
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 33
The PLA army after ‘below the neck’ reforms: contributing to China’s joint warfighting, deterrence and MOOTW Posture
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-12-27
Political Science
35
Altmetric Attention Score: 32
Cyber campaigns and strategic outcomes
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-04
Political Science
36
Altmetric Attention Score: 30
From closed to open systems: How the US military services pursue innovation
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-05-13
Political Science
37
Altmetric Attention Score: 28
Eastbound and down:The United States, NATO enlargement, and suppressing the Soviet and Western European alternatives, 1990–1992
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-04-01
Political Science
38
Altmetric Attention Score: 26
The covert campaign against Iran’s nuclear program: Implications for the theory and practice of counterproliferation
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-10-03
Political Science
39
Altmetric Attention Score: 25
Nuclear divergence between Britain and the United States: SDI and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-04-08
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 25
How does the offense-defense balance scale?
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 25
Blood and robots: How remotely piloted vehicles and related technologies affect the politics of violence
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-10-03
Political Science
42
Altmetric Attention Score: 24
The sixth RMA wave: Disruption in Military Affairs?
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-11-25
Political Science
43
Altmetric Attention Score: 23
A century of coalitions in battle: Incidence, composition, and performance, 1900-2003
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-02-02
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Artificial intelligence in China’s revolution in military affairs
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-05-25
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Pulled East. The rise of China, Europe and French security policy in the Asia-Pacific
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-09-07
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Will inter-state war take place in cities?
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-11-12
Political Science
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 23
Counter-intervention in Chinese naval strategy
Journal of Strategic Studies2020-03-27
Political Science
48
Altmetric Attention Score: 22
Dual-use distinguishability: How 3D-printing shapes the security dilemma for nuclear programs
Journal of Strategic Studies2019-08-23
Political Science
49
Altmetric Attention Score: 21
Posturing for great power competition: Identifying coercion problems in U.S. nuclear policy
Journal of Strategic Studies2021-02-24
Political Science
50
Altmetric Attention Score: 20
Iranian proxies in the Syrian conflict: Tehran’s ‘forward-defence’ in action
Journal of Strategic Studies2022-01-05
Political Science