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Arctic and Russian Policy Studies

Arctic and Russian Policy Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 economic, environmental, and geopolitical aspects of Arctic shipping, including the potential viability of the Northern Sea Route, governance challenges, climate change impacts, and the exploration of oil and gas resources. It also addresses international relations, sustainability, and maritime transport in the Arctic region.

  • Arctic
  • Shipping
  • Governance
  • Northern Sea Route
  • Oil and Gas
  • Climate Change
  • International Relations
  • Sustainability
  • Maritime Transport
  • Geopolitics
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Arctic and Russian Policy Studies

Which countries lead Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (2.8k and 500 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2.8k works
  2. 2 United States 500 works
  3. 3 China 438 works
  4. 4 Canada 215 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 209 works
  6. 6 Norway 179 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 134 works
  8. 8 France 116 works
  9. 9 Germany 105 works
  10. 10 Australia 98 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: 58.2%United States: 10.5%China: 9.2%Canada: 4.5%6 others listed: 17.6%58%largest
Russia2,774 · 58.2%United States500 · 10.5%China438 · 9.2%Canada215 · 4.5%6 others listed841 · 17.6%

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

Which institutions lead Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research, followed by North-Eastern Federal University and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 702 works
  2. 2 North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia 87 works
  3. 3 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 86 works
  4. 4 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 72 works
  5. 5 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 57 works
  6. 6 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 51 works
  7. 7 Financial UniversityRussia 45 works
  8. 8 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 44 works
  9. 9 Northern (Arctic) Federal UniversityRussia 41 works
  10. 10 UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Arctic and Russian Policy Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Arctic and Russian Policy Studies include F. Stuart Chapin, Carlos Manuel Duarte and Markku Kulmala.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 Markku Kulmala Finland 145k 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 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies?

The most cited paper in Arctic and Russian Policy Studies is "The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics" (Robert Falkner, 2016), with 1,242 citations. Next come "Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons" (1,194) and "Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic" (1,075).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Paris Agreement and the new logic of international climate politics Robert Falkner · International Affairs Open access 31 Aug 2016 1,242
2 Changing state of Arctic sea ice across all seasons Julienne Strœve, Dirk Notz · Environmental Research Letters Open access 3 Sep 2018 1,194
3 Arctic sea ice is an important temporal sink and means of transport for microplastic Ilka Peeken, Sebastian Primpke, Birte Beyer et al. · Nature Communications Open access 11 Apr 2018 1,075
4 Co-management and the co-production of knowledge: Learning to adapt in Canada's Arctic Derek R. Armitage, Fikret Berkes, Aaron Dale et al. · Global Environmental Change 22 May 2011 865
5 New Trans-Arctic shipping routes navigable by midcentury LAURENCE C. SMITH, Scott R. Stephenson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 4 Mar 2013 859
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research done?

The largest centres of Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Yakutsk (Russia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Apatity, Yakutsk and Murmansk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 1.1k works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 362 works
  3. 3 YakutskRussia 117 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 106 works
  5. 5 VladivostokRussia 96 works
  6. 6 YekaterinburgRussia 87 works
  7. 7 NovosibirskRussia 85 works
  8. 8 IrkutskRussia 75 works
  9. 9 ApatityRussia 49 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 48 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ApatityRU · 48.7 works164×
  2. YakutskRU · 117.3 works141×
  3. MurmanskRU · 29.3 works114×
  4. RovaniemiFI · 24.3 works113×
  5. ArkhangelskRU · 47.5 works112×
  6. PetrozavodskRU · 32.4 works69×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Arctic and Russian Policy Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Arctic and Russian Policy Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Ocean University of China, Dalian Maritime University and Saint Petersburg Mining University 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%60%mean 23.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Saint Petersburg Min…Ocean University of …Dalian Maritime Univ…Nord 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
1Ocean University of ChinaChina 60.537.0%8.7×24 +68.4%
2Dalian Maritime UniversityChina 58.836.4%10.6×21 +35.8%
3Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 56.247.8%41.5×12 -47.6%
4Nord UniversityNorway 56.021.2%57.8×19 +26.7%
5University of WollongongAustralia 54.442.9%5.7×9 +106.1%
6North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia 53.02.2%201.3×86 +47.0%
7UiT The Arctic University of NorwayNorway 51.613.8%43.0×41 -5.9%
8Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 49.03.9%93.0×86 +0.5%
9Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 48.53.2%15.8×72 -6.1%
10Shanghai Maritime UniversityChina 48.126.2%8.8×12 +137.9%

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 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies, country by country

Is Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 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 Arctic and Russian Policy Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Arctic and Russian Policy Studies0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Arctic and Russian Policy 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%Arctic and Russian Policy Studies10.9% 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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