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COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration

COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 1k research works in it since 2007. 10.3% 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 geopolitical and economic dynamics of global relations, including US-China trade relations, innovation management, international trade, pandemic impact, migration policies, technological warfare, and socio-economic risk assessment.

  • US-China Relations
  • Global Economic Competition
  • Innovation Management
  • International Trade
  • Geopolitical Struggle
  • Digital Economy
  • Pandemic Impact
  • Migration Policies
  • Technological Warfare
  • Socio-Economic Risk Assessment
Research works
1k
fractional, since 2007
In the world top 10%
105
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+126%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration

Which countries lead COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (300 and 82 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 300 works
  2. 2 United States 82 works
  3. 3 China 57 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 44 works
  5. 5 India 25 works
  6. 6 Germany 24 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 21 works
  8. 8 Poland 14 works
  9. 9 Australia 10 works
  10. 10 Kazakhstan 10 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: 51.0%United States: 13.9%China: 9.7%Ukraine: 7.5%6 others listed: 17.8%51%largest
Russia300 · 51.0%United States82 · 13.9%China57 · 9.7%Ukraine44 · 7.5%6 others listed105 · 17.8%

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

Which institutions lead COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research, followed by Financial University and Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 59 works
  2. 2 Financial UniversityRussia 17 works
  3. 3 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 15 works
  4. 4 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 13 works
  5. 5 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 10 works
  6. 6 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 9 works
  7. 7 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 8 works
  8. 8 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 8 works
  9. 9 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 7 works
  10. 10 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 6 works

What are the most cited papers in COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration?

The most cited paper in COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration is "Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge" (Jörg Bogumil, Jonas Hafner, 2021), with 272 citations. Next come "Victims of the Pandemic? European Far-Right Parties and COVID-19" (171) and "The Effectiveness of Russian Government Policy to Support SMEs in the COVID-19 Pandemic" (131).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge Jörg Bogumil, Jonas Hafner Book chapter 2021 272
2 Victims of the Pandemic? European Far-Right Parties and COVID-19 Jakub Wondreys, Cas Mudde · Nationalities Papers Open access 21 Oct 2020 171
3 The Effectiveness of Russian Government Policy to Support SMEs in the COVID-19 Pandemic Елена Александровна Разумовская, Larisa Ivanovna Yuzvovich, Е. Н. Князева et al. · Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity Open access 19 Nov 2020 131
4 Support for radical parties in Western Europe: Structural conflicts and political dynamics Hanspeter Kriesi, Julia Schulte-Cloos · Electoral Studies Open access 22 Apr 2020 103
5 COVID-19 pandemic as a trigger for the acceleration of the cybernetic revolution, transition from e-government to e-state, and change in social relations Leonid E. Grinin, Anton L. Grinin, Andrey Korotayev · Technological Forecasting and Social Change Open access 12 Nov 2021 100
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Where is COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research done?

The largest centres of COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 177 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 31 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 17 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 15 works
  5. 5 YekaterinburgRussia 10 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 8 works
  8. 8 DushanbeTajikistan 8 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  10. 10 WeatherfordUnited States 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 177.5 works24×
  2. Saint PetersburgRU · 30.7 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, St Petersburg University and National Research University Higher School of Economics 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 12.56%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow State Institu…St Petersburg Univer…National Research Un…Financial 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
1Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 75.017.2%138.2×16 +94.8%
2St Petersburg UniversityRussia 56.217.1%31.7×10 +121.0%
3National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 41.79.4%47.0×12 +106.7%
4Financial UniversityRussia 40.08.9%119.5×17 +270.1%
5Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 21.210.2%43.7×9 +29.2%

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 COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration, country by country

Is COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 126% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration.

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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 COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00074% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration0.0046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration 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%COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration10.5% in 20252020

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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