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Balkan and Eastern European Studies

Balkan and Eastern European Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the intersection of international relations, economics, and diplomacy, with a specific emphasis on economic diplomacy, commercial diplomacy, and the role of foreign powers in nation-building. It explores topics such as decision-making in international economic relations, sovereign debt crises, and the impact of economic diplomacy on global economic flows. The papers also delve into the negotiation strategies and trade dynamics between nations, highlighting the significance of economic considerations in diplomatic interactions.

  • Economic Diplomacy
  • International Trade
  • Foreign Policy
  • Commercial Diplomacy
  • Nation-Building
  • Negotiation
  • International Relations
  • Sovereign Debt Crises
  • Global Economic Flows
  • Diplomatic Studies
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Croatia
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Balkan and Eastern European Studies

Which countries lead Balkan and Eastern European Studies research?

By volume, Croatia and Serbia publish the most (976 and 359 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Croatia 976 works
  2. 2 Serbia 359 works
  3. 3 Bosnia and Herzegovina 286 works
  4. 4 Slovenia 193 works
  5. 5 United States 141 works
  6. 6 Russia 83 works
  7. 7 Germany 48 works
  8. 8 Poland 46 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 43 works
  10. 10 Hungary 38 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.

Croatia: 44.1%Serbia: 16.2%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 12.9%Slovenia: 8.7%6 others listed: 18.0%44%largest
Croatia976 · 44.1%Serbia359 · 16.2%Bosnia and Herzegovina286 · 12.9%Slovenia193 · 8.7%6 others listed398 · 18.0%

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

Which institutions lead Balkan and Eastern European Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Zagreb publishes the most Balkan and Eastern European Studies research, followed by Institut za filozofiju and University of Sarajevo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ZagrebCroatia 171 works
  2. 2 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 143 works
  3. 3 University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 124 works
  4. 4 University of BelgradeSerbia 108 works
  5. 5 Croatian Institute of HistoryCroatia 68 works
  6. 6 University of ZadarCroatia 59 works
  7. 7 University of Novi SadSerbia 49 works
  8. 8 Institut za savremenu istorijuSerbia 45 works
  9. 9 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 39 works
  10. 10 University of SplitCroatia 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Balkan and Eastern European Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Balkan and Eastern European Studies include Željko Reiner and G. John Ikenberry.

  1. 1 Željko Reiner Croatia 105k citations
  2. 2 G. John Ikenberry United States 77k 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 Balkan and Eastern European Studies?

The most cited paper in Balkan and Eastern European Studies is "Learning and foreign policy: sweeping a conceptual minefield" (Jack S. Levy, 1994), with 766 citations. Next come "National images and international systems" (455) and "On diplomacy: a genealogy of Western estrangement" (355).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Learning and foreign policy: sweeping a conceptual minefield Jack S. Levy · International Organization 1994 766
2 National images and international systems Kenneth E. Boulding · Journal of Conflict Resolution Open access Jun 1959 455
3 On diplomacy: a genealogy of Western estrangement Christopher Hill · International Affairs 1987 355
4 Orientalist Variations on the Theme "Balkans": Symbolic Geography in Recent Yugoslav Cultural Politics Milica Bakić-Hayden, Robert M. Hayden · Slavic Review 1992 340
5 Double-edged diplomacy Roger Morgan · International Affairs Jul 1994 298
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Balkan and Eastern European Studies research done?

The largest centres of Balkan and Eastern European Studies research in 2022-now are Zagreb (Croatia), Belgrade (Serbia), Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and Ljubljana (Slovenia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zadar, Donji grad and Dubrovnik.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ZagrebCroatia 549 works
  2. 2 BelgradeSerbia 258 works
  3. 3 SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 164 works
  4. 4 LjubljanaSlovenia 130 works
  5. 5 Donji gradCroatia 128 works
  6. 6 ZadarCroatia 92 works
  7. 7 Novi SadSerbia 57 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 52 works
  9. 9 Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 46 works
  10. 10 SplitCroatia 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZadarHR · 91.9 works540×
  2. Donji gradHR · 128.0 works431×
  3. DubrovnikHR · 29.5 works415×
  4. SarajevoBA · 164.1 works252×
  5. MostarBA · 27.7 works226×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Balkan and Eastern European Studies than the world average.

See Balkan and Eastern European Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Balkan and Eastern European Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Institute for Recent History of Serbia, University of Maribor and University of Belgrade 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 12.08%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MariborInstitute for Recent…University of BelgradeUniversity of Zagreb
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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
1Institute for Recent History of SerbiaSerbia 70.320.8%2703.6×23 +5.4%
2University of MariborSlovenia 63.321.4%51.5×26 +44.5%
3University of BelgradeSerbia 62.011.1%65.8×108 -10.2%
4University of ZagrebCroatia 50.36.7%102.9×171 -17.9%
5University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 47.96.9%320.6×124 -9.2%
6University of LjubljanaSlovenia 46.88.3%39.2×39 -48.9%
7University of Banja LukaBosnia and Herzegovina 46.813.3%163.4×29 -21.5%
8University of Arts in BelgradeSerbia 46.514.5%413.7×15 -1.8%
9International University of SarajevoBosnia and Herzegovina 41.19.9%204.7×8 +33.3%
10University of Novi SadSerbia 41.07.9%63.3×49 -39.4%

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 Balkan and Eastern European Studies, country by country

Is Balkan and Eastern European Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Balkan and Eastern European Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Balkan and Eastern European Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Balkan and Eastern European 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%Balkan and Eastern European Studies9.3% 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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