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Archaeology and Historical Studies

Archaeology and Historical Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% 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 ancient Near East, including archaeology, history, and linguistics. It explores the civilizations, cultures, and agricultural systems of pre-Islamic Arabia, Byzantine and early Islamic periods, Nabataean inscriptions, desert agriculture, and urban development in Palestine.

  • Arabia
  • Byzantine
  • Nabataean
  • Archaeological Evidence
  • Desert Agriculture
  • Early Islamic Transition
  • Semitic Languages
  • Byzantine-early Islamic Period
  • Palestine
  • Urban Development
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Archaeology and Historical Studies

Which countries lead Archaeology and Historical Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (915 and 741 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 915 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 741 works
  3. 3 France 608 works
  4. 4 Israel 588 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 394 works
  6. 6 Germany 302 works
  7. 7 Egypt 256 works
  8. 8 Russia 232 works
  9. 9 Italy 227 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 167 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: 20.7%Türkiye: 16.7%France: 13.7%Israel: 13.3%6 others listed: 35.6%21%largest
United States915 · 20.7%Türkiye741 · 16.7%France608 · 13.7%Israel588 · 13.3%6 others listed1,577 · 35.6%

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

Which institutions lead Archaeology and Historical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Archaeology and Historical Studies research, followed by Israel Antiquities Authority and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 290 works
  2. 2 Israel Antiquities AuthorityIsrael 273 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 86 works
  4. 4 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 66 works
  5. 5 University of HaifaIsrael 55 works
  6. 6 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 54 works
  7. 7 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 52 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 50 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 46 works
  10. 10 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Archaeology and Historical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Archaeology and Historical Studies include George Davey Smith, David R. Jacobs and Robert B. Jackson.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 David R. Jacobs United States 152k citations
  3. 3 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k 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 Archaeology and Historical Studies?

The most cited paper in Archaeology and Historical Studies is "Rosenʼs emergency medicine: concepts and clinical practice" (K.R. Rotheray, Giles N. Cattermole, 2010), with 1,128 citations. Next come "Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 B.C.–A.D. 400)" (943) and "The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity" (906).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rosenʼs emergency medicine: concepts and clinical practice K.R. Rotheray, Giles N. Cattermole · European Journal of Emergency Medicine 2 Mar 2010 1,128
2 Taxes and Trade in the Roman Empire (200 B.C.–A.D. 400) Keith Hopkins · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1980 943
3 The Rise and Function of the Holy Man in Late Antiquity Peter Brown · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1971 906
4 SABISTON TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY David J. Dries · Shock 9 Apr 2008 875
5 A problem of rights arbitration from the Talmud Barry O’Neill · Mathematical Social Sciences Jun 1982 839
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Archaeology and Historical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Archaeology and Historical Studies research in 2022-now are Jerusalem (Israel), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Ankara (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ivry-sur-Seine, Jerusalem and Al Fayyum.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JerusalemIsrael 360 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 207 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 119 works
  4. 4 AnkaraTürkiye 104 works
  5. 5 CairoEgypt 95 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 94 works
  7. 7 LyonFrance 79 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 71 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 70 works
  10. 10 HaifaIsrael 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ivry-sur-SeineFR · 36.0 works117×
  2. JerusalemIL · 360.1 works78×
  3. Al FayyumEG · 21.2 works32×
  4. Ramat GanIL · 51.9 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Archaeology and Historical Studies than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University 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%10%20%mean 17.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of HaifaTel Aviv UniversityHebrew University of…University of Cambri…
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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
1University of HaifaIsrael 88.123.0%42.2×55 +12.1%
2Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 80.421.3%11.8×54 -20.3%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 74.411.9%7.3×50 +28.3%
4Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 74.217.1%21.9×66 -23.1%
5Leiden UniversityNetherlands 69.619.1%7.4×23 +0.2%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 66.215.9%5.7×46 -26.7%
7Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 64.98.8%33.2×52 +3.3%
8Aarhus UniversityDenmark 64.818.3%7.8×39 -22.7%
9University of TübingenGermany 63.120.2%5.9×14 +5.8%
10University of ChicagoUnited States 60.917.9%4.5×22 +25.5%

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 Archaeology and Historical Studies, country by country

Is Archaeology and Historical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Archaeology and Historical Studies.

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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 Archaeology and Historical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Archaeology and Historical Studies0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Archaeology 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%Archaeology 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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