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Defense, Military, and Policy Studies

Defense, Military, and Policy Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex relationship between military expenditure, economic growth, and national security. It includes analyses of defense spending's impact on economic development, the dynamics of arms trade, the role of alliances in military burden-sharing, and the implications for public policy and global economy. The research also delves into the technological aspects of defense innovation and the long-term consequences of military conscription.

  • Military Expenditure
  • Economic Growth
  • Defense Spending
  • Panel Data Analysis
  • Arms Trade
  • National Security
  • Alliances
  • Global Economy
  • Public Policy
  • Technology Development
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Defense, Military, and Policy Studies

Which countries lead Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (394 and 128 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 394 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 128 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 119 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 116 works
  5. 5 China 80 works
  6. 6 France 70 works
  7. 7 Germany 67 works
  8. 8 Russia 65 works
  9. 9 Ukraine 56 works
  10. 10 Canada 53 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: 34.3%Türkiye: 11.1%United Kingdom: 10.4%Indonesia: 10.1%6 others listed: 34.1%34%largest
United States394 · 34.3%Türkiye128 · 11.1%United Kingdom119 · 10.4%Indonesia116 · 10.1%6 others listed392 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia Defense University publishes the most Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research, followed by United States Department of Defense and Ludovika University of Public Service.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 68 works
  2. 2 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 36 works
  3. 3 Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 19 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 14 works
  5. 5 Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces AcademyRomania 12 works
  6. 6 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 George Mason UniversityUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 9 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 9 works
  10. 10 Carol I National Defence UniversityRomania 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Defense, Military, and Policy Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Defense, Military, and Policy Studies include Joseph E. Stiglitz, Daron Acemoğlu and D. Gareth Evans.

  1. 1 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k citations
  2. 2 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  3. 3 D. Gareth Evans United Kingdom 137k 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 Defense, Military, and Policy Studies?

The most cited paper in Defense, Military, and Policy Studies is "Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data" (David B. Carter, Curtis S. Signorino, 2010), with 1,697 citations. Next come "Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization" (1,312) and "Reconstructing the correlates of war dataset on material capabilities of states, 1816–1985" (986).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Back to the Future: Modeling Time Dependence in Binary Data David B. Carter, Curtis S. Signorino · Political Analysis Open access 2010 1,697
2 Transportation Costs and International Trade in the Second Era of Globalization David Hummels · The Journal of Economic Perspectives Open access Jul 2007 1,312
3 Reconstructing the correlates of war dataset on material capabilities of states, 1816–1985 J. David Singer · International Interactions May 1988 986
4 Fiscal Stimulus in a Monetary Union: Evidence from US Regions Emi Nakamura, Jón Steinsson · American Economic Review Open access Mar 2014 925
5 Dangerous Dyads Stuart A. Bremer · Journal of Conflict Resolution Jun 1992 921
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Where is Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research done?

The largest centres of Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research in 2022-now are Bogor (Indonesia), Moscow (Russia), Washington D.C. (United States) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bogor and Budapest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BogorIndonesia 70 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 48 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 39 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  5. 5 BudapestHungary 30 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 30 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 27 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 25 works
  9. 9 BucharestRomania 22 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BogorID · 70.2 works23×
  2. BudapestHU · 29.9 works8.0×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Defense, Military, and Policy Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Defense, Military, and Policy Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Indonesia Defense University and George Mason University score highest, combining citation 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 4.3875%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →King's College LondonGeorge Mason Univers…Indonesia Defense Un…Ludovika 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.

Citation 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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.119.1%7.5×11 +0.5%
2Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 55.81.5%326.8×68 +651.1%
3George Mason UniversityUnited States 53.86.7%19.3×10 +95.3%
4Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 33.20.7%104.5×20 +92.9%
5Milli Savunma ÜniversitesiTürkiye 30.23.7%131.1×9 +355.7%
6Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 30.12.8%11.8×9 -15.1%
7Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces AcademyRomania 24.90.3%336.4×12 +34.1%
8Carol I National Defence UniversityRomania 24.70.3%275.5×9 +44.2%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Defense, Military, and Policy Studies, country by country

Is Defense, Military, and Policy Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Defense, Military, and 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Defense, Military, and Policy Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0091% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Defense, Military, and 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%Defense, Military, and Policy Studies10.3% 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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