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Archaeological Research and Protection

Archaeological Research and Protection is a research topic within Space and Planetary Science. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of remote sensing techniques, such as LiDAR and satellite imagery, in archaeological research and cultural heritage preservation. The papers cover topics such as aerial survey, machine learning for feature detection, detection of looting activities, and the use of digital elevation models for understanding historical landscapes.

  • Archaeology
  • Remote Sensing
  • LiDAR
  • Satellite Imagery
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Aerial Survey
  • Machine Learning
  • Digital Elevation Model
  • Looting Detection
  • Historical Landscape
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Archaeological Research and Protection

Which countries lead Archaeological Research and Protection research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (621 and 475 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 621 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 475 works
  3. 3 Italy 452 works
  4. 4 China 240 works
  5. 5 France 215 works
  6. 6 Germany 203 works
  7. 7 Spain 173 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 172 works
  9. 9 Poland 159 works
  10. 10 Russia 148 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.

United States: 21.7%United Kingdom: 16.6%Italy: 15.8%China: 8.4%6 others listed: 37.4%22%largest
United States621 · 21.7%United Kingdom475 · 16.6%Italy452 · 15.8%China240 · 8.4%6 others listed1,071 · 37.4%

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

Which institutions lead Archaeological Research and Protection research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Archaeological Research and Protection research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Department of Archaeology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 83 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 45 works
  3. 3 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 38 works
  4. 4 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 36 works
  5. 5 Israel Antiquities AuthorityIsrael 36 works
  6. 6 National Research CouncilItaly 31 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 24 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 23 works
  9. 9 University of FlorenceItaly 22 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Archaeological Research and Protection?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Archaeological Research and Protection include Andrew Zisserman, Michel Foucault and Luc Van Gool.

  1. 1 Andrew Zisserman United Kingdom 255k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k citations
  4. 4 David R. Jacobs United States 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 Research and Protection?

The most cited paper in Archaeological Research and Protection is "A History of Archaeological Thought. By Bruce G. Trigger." (David B. Small, 1992), with 1,297 citations. Next come "TECHNOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF LOW‐FIRED TERRACOTTA STATUES FROM AYIA IRINI, KEA" (1,259) and "An introduction to optical dating" (1,214).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A History of Archaeological Thought. By Bruce G. Trigger. David B. Small · American Journal of Archaeology 1992 1,297
2 TECHNOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF LOW‐FIRED TERRACOTTA STATUES FROM AYIA IRINI, KEA Yannis Maniatis, A.A. Katsanos, Miriam Ervin Caskey · Archaeometry Aug 1982 1,259
3 An introduction to optical dating James K. Feathers · Geoarchaeology 2000 1,214
4 Dissonant heritage: The management of the past as a resource in conflict C. Michael Hall · Annals of Tourism Research 1997 1,050
5 The prehistoric and preindustrial deforestation of Europe Jed Oliver Kaplan, Kristen Marie Krumhardt, Niklaus E. Zimmermann · Quaternary Science Reviews Open access 25 Oct 2009 993
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Archaeological Research and Protection research done?

The largest centres of Archaeological Research and Protection research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Rome (Italy), Paris (France) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Colombo, Jerusalem and Venice.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 114 works
  2. 2 RomeItaly 95 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 79 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 69 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 54 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 52 works
  7. 7 AthensGreece 50 works
  8. 8 JerusalemIsrael 48 works
  9. 9 BudapestHungary 47 works
  10. 10 ColomboSri Lanka 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ColomboLK · 42.6 works18×
  2. JerusalemIL · 47.5 works15×
  3. VeniceIT · 20.3 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Archaeological Research and Protection than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Archaeological Research and Protection?

Among universities, judged by research, Cyprus University of Technology, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Cambridge 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 16.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Cyprus University of…University of OxfordUniversity of Cambri…Sapienza University …
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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
1Cyprus University of TechnologyCyprus 63.236.3%44.0×10 -47.3%
2Sapienza University of RomeItaly 58.07.1%7.6×36 +52.4%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.610.2%5.0×24 +4.1%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 56.311.7%4.1×24 +1.0%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 53.815.7%3.4×22 -9.4%
6University of FlorenceItaly 52.59.6%9.2×22 +5.0%
7Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece 51.431.1%5.3×10 +4.6%
8Politecnico di MilanoItaly 49.117.6%6.7×19 -19.5%
9Politecnico di TorinoItaly 48.615.3%8.6×16 -11.3%
10University of BolognaItaly 48.114.6%6.0×20 -8.5%

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 Research and Protection, country by country

Is Archaeological Research and Protection research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Archaeological Research and Protection.

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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 Research and Protection as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Archaeological Research and Protection0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Archaeological Research and Protection 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 Research and Protection10.0% 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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