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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. 16.6% 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%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+126%
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Which countries lead Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (2.7k and 461 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Russia 2.7k works
  2. 2 United States 461 works
  3. 3 China 406 works
  4. 4 Canada 200 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 191 works
  6. 6 Norway 168 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 131 works
  8. 8 France 110 works
  9. 9 Germany 95 works
  10. 10 Australia 90 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: 59.4%United States: 10.1%China: 8.9%Canada: 4.4%6 others listed: 17.2%59%largest
Russia2,703 · 59.4%United States461 · 10.1%China406 · 8.9%Canada200 · 4.4%6 others listed784 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, North-Eastern Federal University publishes the most Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research, followed by Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Russian Academy of Sciences.

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Arctic and Russian Policy Studies include Carlos M. Duarte, F. Stuart Chapin and C. Michael Hall.

  1. 1 Carlos M. Duarte Saudi Arabia 4.1k citations
  2. 2 F. Stuart Chapin United States 2.7k citations
  3. 3 C. Michael Hall New Zealand 2.2k citations
  4. 4 Daniel Pauly Canada 2.2k citations

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

Where is Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research done?

The largest centres of Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research in 2022–2025 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 Rovaniemi.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Moscow Russia 1.1k works
  2. 2 Saint Petersburg Russia 348 works
  3. 3 Yakutsk Russia 115 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 103 works
  5. 5 Vladivostok Russia 95 works
  6. 6 Yekaterinburg Russia 84 works
  7. 7 Novosibirsk Russia 83 works
  8. 8 Irkutsk Russia 74 works
  9. 9 Apatity Russia 45 works
  10. 10 Budapest Hungary 45 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ApatityRU · 45.2 works151×
  2. YakutskRU · 114.8 works142×
  3. RovaniemiFI · 22.2 works108×
  4. MurmanskRU · 27.0 works108×
  5. ArkhangelskRU · 43.9 works107×
  6. PetrozavodskRU · 31.2 works67×
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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, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Nord 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 18.32%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Moscow State Institute of International Relations: 83, 13.1%Lomonosov Moscow State University: 71, 7.2%Nord University: 18, 42.3%Moscow State University: 36, 4.6%Saint Petersburg Mining University: 12, 53.0%North-Eastern Federal University: 84, 5.9%Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University: 32, 18.2%St Petersburg University: 54, 9.5%Northern (Arctic) Federal University: 37, 11.8%The Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences: 23, 17.6%Nord UniversityMoscow State Institu…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…Moscow State Univers…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 66.813.1%83.4×83 +183.9%
2 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 66.57.2%14.4×71 +255.9%
3 Nord UniversityNorway 66.342.3%51.6×18
4 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 65.34.6%23.2×36 +323.1%
5 Saint Petersburg Mining UniversityRussia 65.053.0%35.7×12
6 North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia 64.35.9%181.3×84 +1316.4%
7 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia 63.618.2%26.5×32 +1729.0%
8 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 63.19.5%19.7×54 +346.9%
9 Northern (Arctic) Federal UniversityRussia 60.511.8%126.5×37 +830.0%
10 The Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 59.117.6%209.0×23 +579.2%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Arctic and Russian Policy Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 126% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Arctic and Russian Policy 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.

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.