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Gender, Security, and Conflict

Gender, Security, and Conflict is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of gender dynamics, armed conflict, and security, with a focus on sexual violence, gender inequality, military masculinity, feminist perspectives, war crimes, peacebuilding efforts, UN Resolution 1325, wartime rape, women's roles in conflict, and gender-based violence. The research delves into the experiences of women and men in war-torn regions, the impact of conflict on gender identities, and the challenges of addressing gender-based atrocities in post-conflict settings.

  • Sexual Violence
  • Gender Inequality
  • Military Masculinity
  • Feminist Perspectives
  • War Crimes
  • Peacebuilding
  • UN Resolution 1325
  • Wartime Rape
  • Women in Conflict
  • Gender-based Violence
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender, Security, and Conflict

Which countries lead Gender, Security, and Conflict research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (773 and 476 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 773 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 476 works
  3. 3 Canada 183 works
  4. 4 Germany 174 works
  5. 5 Australia 170 works
  6. 6 India 159 works
  7. 7 Sweden 93 works
  8. 8 South Africa 76 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 62 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 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: 34.8%United Kingdom: 21.4%Canada: 8.2%Germany: 7.8%6 others listed: 27.6%35%largest
United States773 · 34.8%United Kingdom476 · 21.4%Canada183 · 8.2%Germany174 · 7.8%6 others listed613 · 27.6%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Security, and Conflict research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Gender, Security, and Conflict research, followed by London School of Economics and Political Science and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 42 works
  2. 2 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 27 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 20 works
  4. 4 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 18 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  6. 6 University of JubaSouth Sudan 17 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 16 works
  8. 8 University of GothenburgSweden 16 works
  9. 9 Lund UniversitySweden 15 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 14 works

What are the most cited papers in Gender, Security, and Conflict?

The most cited paper in Gender, Security, and Conflict is "BARGAINING WITH PATRIARCHY" (Deniz Kandiyoti, 1988), with 3,024 citations. Next come "The scope of rape: Incidence and prevalence of sexual aggression and victimization in a national sample of higher education students." (2,302) and "Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗" (2,069).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 BARGAINING WITH PATRIARCHY Deniz Kandiyoti · Gender & Society Sep 1988 3,024
2 The scope of rape: Incidence and prevalence of sexual aggression and victimization in a national sample of higher education students. Mary P. Koss, Christine A. Gidycz, Nadine Wisniewski · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1987 2,302
3 Getting Personal: Reflexivity, Positionality, and Feminist Research∗ Kim V. L. England · The Professional Geographer Open access Feb 1994 2,069
4 Violence Against Women Lori Heise · Violence Against Women Jun 1998 2,024
5 Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle Sally Engle Merry · American Anthropologist 13 Feb 2006 1,387
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Gender, Security, and Conflict research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Security, and Conflict research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Hamburg (Germany), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Juba and Hamburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 117 works
  2. 2 HamburgGermany 48 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 46 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C.United States 36 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 34 works
  7. 7 OttawaCanada 31 works
  8. 8 JubaSouth Sudan 28 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 28 works
  10. 10 OsloNorway 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. JubaSS · 28.2 works62×
  2. HamburgDE · 47.6 works9.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gender, Security, and Conflict than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gender, Security, and Conflict?

Among universities, judged by research, Monash University, Lund University and University of Gothenburg 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%mean 20.01%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityLund UniversityUniversity of Gothen…London School of Eco…
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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
1Monash UniversityAustralia 76.524.1%7.0×20 +4.4%
2Lund UniversitySweden 74.619.8%9.3×15 +39.7%
3University of GothenburgSweden 72.617.3%11.6×16 +55.6%
4London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 71.213.8%39.2×27 -3.8%
5University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 70.834.7%6.9×10 +84.0%
6Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 64.116.6%9.7×13 +65.7%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.614.8%6.9×17 +19.2%
8Uppsala UniversitySweden 60.124.1%7.4×12 -2.8%
9University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 59.911.9%9.9×18 +5.0%
10University of OsloNorway 59.223.0%5.8×11 +20.8%

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 Gender, Security, and Conflict, country by country

Is Gender, Security, and Conflict research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gender, Security, and Conflict.

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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 Gender, Security, and Conflict as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Gender, Security, and Conflict0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gender, Security, and Conflict 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%Gender, Security, and Conflict10.4% 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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