Dr Samuel Koehne‘s article, ‘Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas’, published in Central European History is the single highest ranking Altmetric article in that journal from 2014 to today. This places Dr Koehne’s article in the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.

Dr Koehne works in the field of Modern European History, focusing particularly on the interrelations between religion, politics and nationalism. He is an expert on Nazism and religion, and has a developed international profile owing to a series of publications in world-class journals (including Central European History, the Journal of Contemporary History & German Studies Review) .