The phrase "explained as a result" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is commonly used in academic writing, especially when discussing cause and effect relationships. Example: The decrease in crime rates can be explained as a result of increased police presence in the area.
The emergence of religion has long been explained as a result of either culture or environmental factors but not both.
They're explained as a result of his retreat into art as a means of blocking out his harsh childhood on the Boston wharves.
The budget shows the department was underspent by £500m in 2012-13, which DfID explained as a result of transfers to other departments – such as the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, and changing project schedules.
The persistence of military rule can be partly explained as a result of a two-day revolt by farmworkers in January 1932 that was organized by Augustín Farabundo Martí, head of the recently formed Salvadoran Communist Party.
The racial gap has often been explained as a result of late diagnosis among African-Americans, lack of access to care and less aggressive treatment, but experts said that in the case of oropharyngeal cancer, there appeared to be distinct biological differences between the tumors.
Implications in life test design and cost savings are explained as a result.
This can be explained as a result of the Coulombic repulsion of neighbouring charges.
Slip partitioning could be explained as a result of upward propagation of oblique shear at depth.
All these behaviors are generally explained as a result of the high surface-to-volume ratio of nanomaterials.
Generally, 40Ar/36Ar values are explained as a result of the mixture between non-radiogenic trapped and radiogenic argon compositions.
This difference could be explained as a result of different specific habitat factors (Singh et al. 2015).
