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Eurasian Exchange Networks

Eurasian Exchange Networks is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the Silk Roads and Eurasian exchange networks, focusing on topics such as the Mongol Empire, Sasanian Iran, cultural interaction, nomadic societies, trade routes, and historical diplomacy. It delves into the economic, political, and cultural exchanges that occurred along these ancient trade routes connecting East and West.

  • Silk Roads
  • Eurasian Exchange
  • Central Asia
  • Mongol Empire
  • Sasanian Iran
  • Cultural Interaction
  • Nomadic Societies
  • Trade Routes
  • Steppe Civilizations
  • Historical Diplomacy
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Eurasian Exchange Networks

Which countries lead Eurasian Exchange Networks research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (680 and 586 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 680 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 586 works
  3. 3 Russia 539 works
  4. 4 France 315 works
  5. 5 China 281 works
  6. 6 India 249 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 212 works
  8. 8 Germany 204 works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 134 works
  10. 10 Italy 121 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: 20.5%Türkiye: 17.6%Russia: 16.2%France: 9.5%6 others listed: 36.2%20%largest
United States680 · 20.5%Türkiye586 · 17.6%Russia539 · 16.2%France315 · 9.5%6 others listed1,202 · 36.2%

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

Which institutions lead Eurasian Exchange Networks research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Eurasian Exchange Networks research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 231 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 161 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 69 works
  4. 4 Israel Antiquities AuthorityIsrael 37 works
  5. 5 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina 29 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 26 works
  8. 8 Mongolian Academy of SciencesMongolia 24 works
  9. 9 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 Azerbaijan National Academy of SciencesAzerbaijan 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Eurasian Exchange Networks?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Eurasian Exchange Networks include P. Jackson.

  1. 1 P. Jackson France 230k 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 Eurasian Exchange Networks?

The most cited paper in Eurasian Exchange Networks is "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" (Ruth Fulton Benedict, 1995), with 726 citations. Next come "Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor" (546) and "The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia" (461).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Ruth Fulton Benedict · Psychologists in Word and Image Book chapter 27 Mar 1995 726
2 Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor Amélie Kuhrt, Martha T. Roth · American Journal of Legal History 1997 546
3 The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia Peter de Barros Damgaard et al. · Science Open access 9 May 2018 461
4 Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis Dorian Q. Fuller · Journal of World Prehistory 30 Nov 2006 382
5 Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History David Christian · Journal of world history Mar 2000 359
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Eurasian Exchange Networks research done?

The largest centres of Eurasian Exchange Networks research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Paris (France), Beijing (China) and Yerevan (Armenia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ivry-sur-Seine, Ulan-Ude and Yerevan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 169 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 155 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 104 works
  4. 4 YerevanArmenia 91 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 85 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 83 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 74 works
  8. 8 WeatherfordUnited States 69 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  10. 10 BudapestHungary 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ivry-sur-SeineFR · 24.4 works107×
  2. Ulan-UdeRU · 20.6 works77×
  3. YerevanAM · 90.5 works41×
  4. UlaanbaatarMN · 61.2 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Eurasian Exchange Networks than the world average.

See Eurasian Exchange Networks on the map

Where is the best place to study Eurasian Exchange Networks?

Among universities, judged by research, Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, Weatherford College and University of Cambridge 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%30%mean 18.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniv…Ankara Hacı Bayram V…University of Cambri…Weatherford College
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 67.727.0%14.6×14 +462.8%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 65.68.8%12.1×69 +147.3%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 63.117.8%4.2×21 +20.4%
4Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 61.721.0%23.9×14 +309.8%
5Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 60.718.2%4.3×16 +63.9%
6Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 60.321.0%10.5×14 +121.7%
7Hitit ÜniversitesiTürkiye 60.322.0%25.6×11 +240.5%
8Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 59.014.9%7.0×16 +13.1%
9Leiden UniversityNetherlands 58.916.0%7.4×17 +24.9%
10Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 57.817.6%9.6×15 +80.7%

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 Eurasian Exchange Networks, country by country

Is Eurasian Exchange Networks research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Eurasian Exchange Networks.

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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 Eurasian Exchange Networks as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Eurasian Exchange Networks0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Eurasian Exchange Networks 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%Eurasian Exchange Networks10.4% 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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