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Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies

Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the cultural interactions and archaeological evidence of Bronze Age societies in Europe, focusing on topics such as Corded Ware Culture, funerary customs, chronometry, and environmental forces shaping the development of these ancient cultures.

  • Bronze Age
  • Corded Ware Culture
  • Archaeological Finds
  • Chronometry
  • Early Medieval
  • Funerary Customs
  • Cultural Relations
  • Barbarian
  • Archaeological Materials
  • Environmental Forces
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies

Which countries lead Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Poland publish the most (473 and 432 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 473 works
  2. 2 Poland 432 works
  3. 3 France 420 works
  4. 4 Hungary 242 works
  5. 5 United States 205 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 201 works
  7. 7 Germany 135 works
  8. 8 Croatia 132 works
  9. 9 Romania 98 works
  10. 10 Italy 77 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia: 19.6%Poland: 17.9%France: 17.4%Hungary: 10.0%6 others listed: 35.1%20%largest
Russia473 · 19.6%Poland432 · 17.9%France420 · 17.4%Hungary242 · 10.0%6 others listed848 · 35.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 222 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 200 works
  3. 3 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 94 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 93 works
  5. 5 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 45 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques PréventivesFrance 40 works
  7. 7 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 37 works
  8. 8 Institute of ArchaeologyCroatia 33 works
  9. 9 University of WarsawPoland 33 works
  10. 10 Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungary 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies include Jean‐Louis Vincent, Jean Bousquet and Christopher T. Russell.

  1. 1 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k citations
  2. 2 Jean Bousquet France 119k citations
  3. 3 Christopher T. Russell United States 117k citations
  4. 4 David Emil Reich United States 113k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies?

The most cited paper in Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies is "Formation processes of the archaeological record" (Martin Bell, 1989), with 1,106 citations. Next come "Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history in the southern part of Transylvania (Romania): pollen analysis of two sequences from Avrig" (711) and "Deglaciation of Fennoscandia" (682).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Formation processes of the archaeological record Martin Bell · Journal of Archaeological Science Sep 1989 1,106
2 Late Glacial and Holocene vegetation history in the southern part of Transylvania (Romania): pollen analysis of two sequences from Avrig Ioan Tanţău, Maurice Reille, Jacques‐Louis de Beaulieu et al. · Journal of Quaternary Science Nov 2005 711
3 Deglaciation of Fennoscandia Arjen Peter Stroeven, Clas Hättestrand, Johan Klemån et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews Open access 24 Oct 2015 682
4 Environmental reconstruction of a Roman Period settlement site in Uitgeest (The Netherlands), with special reference to coprophilous fungi Bas Van Geel, Janneke Buurman, Otto Brinkkemper et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science 7 Apr 2003 630
5 The Lycurgus Cup — A Roman nanotechnology Ian C. Freestone, Nigel Meeks, Margaret Sax et al. · Gold bulletin Open access Dec 2007 559
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Where is Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research in 2022-now are Budapest (Hungary), Warsaw (Poland), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz, Zadar and Donji grad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BudapestHungary 176 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 161 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 119 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 105 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 72 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 70 works
  7. 7 KrakowPoland 56 works
  8. 8 ZagrebCroatia 47 works
  9. 9 PoznańPoland 45 works
  10. 10 NovosibirskRussia 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MetzFR · 39.9 works191×
  2. ZadarHR · 31.0 works154×
  3. Donji gradHR · 41.0 works117×
  4. PessacFR · 37.7 works77×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Eötvös Loránd University, University of Warsaw and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Siberian Scientific …Christian-Albrechts-…Eötvös Loránd Univer…University of Warsaw
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 69.213.7%51.4×45 +9.0%
2University of WarsawPoland 62.411.6%22.6×33 +16.2%
3Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 59.233.8%10.0×9 +10.1%
4Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Oil IndustryRussia 57.736.7%792.4×9 -15.0%
5Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 57.512.8%35.1×24 +55.5%
6University of WrocławPoland 57.219.4%31.5×18 +31.4%
7Masaryk UniversityCzechia 57.016.4%15.1×13 +21.3%
8Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 55.412.8%15.3×29 -2.2%
9Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 54.016.6%32.0×37 -25.3%
10University of LjubljanaSlovenia 50.713.4%10.7×13 +32.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies, country by country

Is Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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