The phrase "attributable to something" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that a particular result or effect can be traced back to a specific cause or reason.
Example: "The increase in sales this quarter is largely attributable to our new marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "due to" or "resulting from".
Mr. Mayeux, the French scientist, said the problem might be attributable to "something in the patients themselves, some susceptibility in their immune system".
Some have pointed to internal barriers, suggesting that the problem is partly attributable to something about women themselves — they are not "ambitious enough" at work (while pursuing meaningful family goals), or are deeply committed to work but too hesitant to climb leadership ladders in organizations.
In my opinion, Twitter's rise can be directly attributable to something which is the opposite of everything Scoble is asking for: simplicity.
Underneath all that fustian, I can in fact find something attributable to John F. Kennedy, to a climactic line of his Convention acceptance speech: "I am saying to you that my decisions on every public policy will be my own, as an American, as a Democrat, and as a free man".
Investigations by luge's international governing body and the coroner of British Columbia later concluded that his death had been an accident caused by an unprecedented confluence of circumstances rather than something directly attributable to the track's design.
Neither SMA, nor other motor cortex activity, was present at the threshold of P < 0.01 (cluster corrected, k > 106) in our study, something probably attributable to differences in the applied protocol.
This might well be attributable to the absence of international networks, something that has its roots in the international isolation that was characteristic for German accounting academics until the beginning of this century (Küpper and Mattessich 2005; Wagenhofer 2006).
That our group of "other" specialisations is less prone to empirical work is something which may be attributable to the large number of doctoral students specialising in taxation in this group, a subject which at least traditionally is less geared to empirical approaches, owing to the lack of data (e.g. Shackleford and Shevlin 2001).
The only outlier in the below chart is Kerry's 19-point win among Independents in 2004 (something that may be attributable to "quirky" exits that year).
Lung cancer displayed a variable trend, albeit somewhat distant from the 30-day target, something that is, in part, attributable to the complexity of the treatment process, inasmuch as this includes thoracic surgery concentrated at tertiary hospitals.
"This wasn't attributable to differences in the amount of food they consumed, so there was something in the microbiota that was able to transmit this trait.
