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Archaeological and Historical Studies

Archaeological and Historical 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 covers a wide range of topics related to the archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Iron Age, Romanization, Celtic culture, Phoenician influence, numismatics, religious practices, settlement patterns, and cultural exchange. The papers explore the ancient history and material culture of the region, shedding light on its diverse and complex past.

  • Iberian Peninsula
  • archaeology
  • Iron Age
  • Romanization
  • Celtic culture
  • Phoenician influence
  • numismatics
  • religious practices
  • settlement patterns
  • cultural exchange
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Archaeological and Historical Studies

Which countries lead Archaeological and Historical Studies research?

By volume, Spain and France publish the most (1.4k and 244 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 1.4k works
  2. 2 France 244 works
  3. 3 Italy 127 works
  4. 4 Mexico 119 works
  5. 5 Argentina 110 works
  6. 6 United States 110 works
  7. 7 Brazil 107 works
  8. 8 Portugal 99 works
  9. 9 Chile 52 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 44 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.

Spain: 57.4%France: 10.3%Italy: 5.4%Mexico: 5.0%6 others listed: 22.0%57%largest
Spain1,365 · 57.4%France244 · 10.3%Italy127 · 5.4%Mexico119 · 5.0%6 others listed522 · 22.0%

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

Which institutions lead Archaeological and Historical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Archaeological and Historical Studies research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 131 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 97 works
  3. 3 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 97 works
  4. 4 Universidad de GranadaSpain 84 works
  5. 5 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 60 works
  6. 6 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 56 works
  7. 7 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 53 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SevillaSpain 52 works
  9. 9 University of the Basque CountrySpain 43 works
  10. 10 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Archaeological and Historical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Archaeological and Historical Studies include Rafael Lozano, Michel Foucault and Antoni Ribas.

  1. 1 Rafael Lozano United States 224k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Antoni Ribas United States 167k citations
  4. 4 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  5. 5 S. D’Auria France 130k 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 Archaeological and Historical Studies?

The most cited paper in Archaeological and Historical Studies is "Extensional collapse of thickened continental lithosphere: A working hypothesis for the Alboran Sea and Gibraltar arc" (John Paul Platt, Reinoud L.M. Vissers, 1989), with 824 citations. Next come "The past of a future syntaxis across the Zagros" (398) and "Geología de España" (393).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Extensional collapse of thickened continental lithosphere: A working hypothesis for the Alboran Sea and Gibraltar arc John Paul Platt, Reinoud L.M. Vissers · Geology 1989 824
2 The past of a future syntaxis across the Zagros Christopher J. Talbot, Mehdi Alavi · Geological Society London Special Publications 1996 398
3 Geología de España Ferrán Colombo Piñol · Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina Jun 2007 393
4 Value of Historical Records of Earthquakes Nicholas N. Ambraseys · Nature Aug 1971 270
5 A purely geometric distance to the binary star Atlas, a member of the Pleiades N. Zwahlen, P. North, Y. Debernardi et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics Open access 28 Sep 2004 255
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Archaeological and Historical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Archaeological and Historical Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Barcelona (Spain), Granada (Spain) and Seville (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pessac, Tarragona and Cadiz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 336 works
  2. 2 BarcelonaSpain 95 works
  3. 3 GranadaSpain 93 works
  4. 4 SevilleSpain 86 works
  5. 5 ValenciaSpain 67 works
  6. 6 ZaragozaSpain 59 works
  7. 7 Buenos AiresArgentina 54 works
  8. 8 LisbonPortugal 53 works
  9. 9 PessacFrance 45 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PessacFR · 44.9 works113×
  2. TarragonaES · 28.9 works57×
  3. CadizES · 28.1 works51×
  4. GranadaES · 93.0 works49×
  5. AlicanteES · 33.2 works40×
  6. ZaragozaES · 58.8 works39×
  7. Santiago de CompostelaES · 40.3 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Archaeological and Historical Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Archaeological and Historical Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Granada, Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Universidad Complutense de Madrid 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%10%20%mean 13.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Complute…Universidad de GranadaUniversitat Rovira i…Universitat de Barce…
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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
1Universidad de GranadaSpain 79.912.4%63.7×84 +10.7%
2Universitat Rovira i VirgiliSpain 77.612.2%65.2×28 +84.7%
3Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 75.413.3%47.0×97 -3.4%
4Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 71.611.5%33.5×60 -11.0%
5Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 71.111.0%39.6×53 +3.6%
6Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 70.915.7%29.4×24 +3.0%
7University of AlicanteSpain 70.818.8%46.2×32 -15.0%
8Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 69.513.7%21.0×32 -2.5%
9Universitat de les Illes BalearsSpain 69.415.7%42.3×12 +80.4%
10Universidad Politécnica de MadridSpain 67.514.7%20.5×15 +31.0%

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 Archaeological and Historical Studies, country by country

Is Archaeological and Historical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Archaeological and Historical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Archaeological and Historical Studies0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Archaeological and Historical 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%Archaeological and Historical 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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