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Yad Ben Zvi

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Research works
24
▲ 123% vs 2018-21
Citations
17
0.7 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
1.2%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
14%
world 40%
International
12%
world 18%
Yad Ben Zvi

Not ranked overall: Yad Ben Zvi is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Yad Ben Zvi work in?

In all years, 96% of research at Yad Ben Zvi is in Social Sciences, 4% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (82%), Arts and Humanities (12%), Psychology (2%). It does 3.3× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 23 fractional works · 96.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 20 fractional works · 82.4% of its workSociology and Political Science: 15 fractional works · 60.6% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 fractional works · 12.8% of its workDemography: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workLaw: 1 fractional works · 4.1% of its workAnthropology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 11.9% of its workHistory: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workPhilosophy: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 2.7% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.6% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 1 fractional works · 3.9% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.8% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnalytical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workALL ITS WORKYad Ben Zvi24fractional works, all years
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences96%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in all years. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 2 domains and 6 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2082.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities311.9%
    3. Psychology01.9%
    1. Environmental Science01.8%
    2. Physics and Astronomy01.4%
    3. Chemistry00.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Who are the top researchers at Yad Ben Zvi?

Ranked on the quality score, Zeev Levin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Yad Ben Zvi.

  1. 1 Zeev Levin Israel · #3,688,817 worldwide 124 citations · 25 works
All ranked researchers at Yad Ben Zvi

What are the most cited papers from Yad Ben Zvi?

The most cited paper from Yad Ben Zvi is "Israel's environmental movement: strategic challenges" (Alon Tal, Shira Leon-Zchout, Itay Greenspan et al., 2013), with 9 citations. Next come "Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century PragueGoldbergSylvie AnneCosmanCarol Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague Contraversions, 3University of California PressBerkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1996, xviii, 303, $45.00/£37.50" (6) and "From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia" (3).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Israel's environmental movement: strategic challenges Alon Tal, Shira Leon-Zchout, Itay Greenspan et al. · Environmental Politics Sep 2013 9
2 Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century PragueGoldbergSylvie AnneCosmanCarol Crossing the Jabbok: Illness and Death in Ashkenazi Judaism in Sixteenth- through Nineteenth-Century Prague Contraversions, 3University of California PressBerkeley/Los Angeles/London, 1996, xviii, 303, $45.00/£37.50 David Joshua Malkiel · Journal of Jewish Studies Apr 1998 6
3 From 'Mercy' to 'Banner of Labour': the Bukharan Jewish press in late Tsarist and early Soviet Central Asia Thomas Loy, Zeev Levin · Central Asian Survey 17 Dec 2021 3
4 State Identity, Territorial Integrity and Party Banning: The Case of a Pan-Arab Political Party in Israel Ron Harris · Socio-Legal Review Open access 2008 2
5 The Reception of Muʿtazilism among Jews Who Were Not Professional Theologians David E. Sklare · Intellectual History of the Islamicate World 2014 2
All 28 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Yad Ben Zvi?

By fractional works in all years, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Israel, Nationalism, Palestine, Human Rights, Ethnic Identity, Occupation, Empire and Soviet Union.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in all years in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 20 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Israel13▲ 1515×2 topics
  2. Nationalism13▲ 93×4 topics
  3. Palestine13▲ 891×2 topics
  4. Human Rights12▲ 60×2 topics
  5. Ethnic Identity12▲ 569×1 topic
  6. Occupation12▲ 647×1 topic
  7. Empire3▲ 126×3 topics
  8. Soviet Union2▲ 155×2 topics
  9. Ethnic Cleansing2▲ 487×2 topics
  10. Migration2▲ 22×2 topics
  11. Colonialism2▲ 13×2 topics
  12. National Identity2▲ 52×1 topic
  13. Stalinism2▲ 474×1 topic
  14. Identity1▲ 6.4×4 topics
  15. American Jews1▲ 584×1 topic
  16. Cold War1▲ 52×2 topics
  17. Corrective Justice1▲ 166×1 topic
  18. Cultural Transmission1▲ 42×2 topics
  19. Jewish identity1▲ 584×1 topic
  20. Remedies1▲ 166×1 topic

Which research topics does Yad Ben Zvi publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Soviet and Russian History, Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics and Medieval and Classical Philosophy.

Soviet and Russian History1Soviet and Russian History: 1 fractional worksJewish and Middle Eastern Studies: 1 fractional worksHistorical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics: 0 fractional worksMedieval and Classical Philosophy: 0 fractional worksIslamic Studies and History: 0 fractional worksGerman History and Society0German History and Society: 0 fractional worksJewish Identity and Society: 0 fractional worksMemory, Trauma, and Commemoration: 0 fractional worksHistorical and Linguistic Studies: 0 fractional worksAfrican history and culture analysis: 0 fractional works
Political Science and International RelationsSociology and Political SciencePhilosophyHistory2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Soviet and Russian History Political Science and International Relations 1 works
  2. 2 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  3. 3 Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  4. 4 Medieval and Classical Philosophy Philosophy 0 works
  5. 5 Islamic Studies and History Political Science and International Relations 0 works
  6. 6 German History and Society History 0 works
  7. 7 Jewish Identity and Society Demography 0 works
  8. 8 Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration Social Psychology 0 works
  9. 9 Historical and Linguistic Studies Sociology and Political Science 0 works
  10. 10 African history and culture analysis Political Science and International Relations 0 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available13.7%not open86.3%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors11.6%domestic only88.4%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Yad Ben Zvi's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 123% higher than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Yad Ben Zvi as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000022% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%Yad Ben Zvi0.000068% in 20251990200020102020

Fractional works of Yad Ben Zvi over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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