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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. 24.0% 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%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
24.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+47%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Gender, Security, and Conflict research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (658 and 421 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 658 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 421 works
  3. 3 Canada 155 works
  4. 4 Australia 149 works
  5. 5 Germany 145 works
  6. 6 India 142 works
  7. 7 Sweden 81 works
  8. 8 South Africa 64 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 48 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 46 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: 34.5%United Kingdom: 22.0%Canada: 8.1%Australia: 7.8%6 others listed: 27.5%34%largest
United States658 · 34.5%United Kingdom421 · 22.0%Canada155 · 8.1%Australia149 · 7.8%6 others listed525 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Security, and Conflict research?

By volume in 2022–2025, 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 University of Birmingham.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Germany 33 works
  2. 2 London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 26 works
  3. 3 University of Birmingham United Kingdom 17 works
  4. 4 Lund University Sweden 15 works
  5. 5 Monash University Australia 14 works
  6. 6 King's College London United Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 University of Gothenburg Sweden 13 works
  8. 8 University of Oxford United Kingdom 13 works
  9. 9 The University of Melbourne Australia 13 works
  10. 10 University of Helsinki Finland 13 works

Where is Gender, Security, and Conflict research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Security, and Conflict research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Hamburg (Germany) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hamburg.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 101 works
  2. 2 Melbourne Australia 43 works
  3. 3 Hamburg Germany 38 works
  4. 4 New York United States 32 works
  5. 5 Washington D.C. United States 29 works
  6. 6 Sydney Australia 28 works
  7. 7 Ottawa Canada 27 works
  8. 8 Brisbane Australia 26 works
  9. 9 Oslo Norway 24 works
  10. 10 Stockholm Sweden 23 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HamburgDE · 37.6 works8.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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, London School of Economics and Political Science, Lund University and Monash University 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 30.75%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →London School of Economics and Political Science: 26, 30.7%Lund University: 15, 33.8%Monash University: 14, 41.0%University of Birmingham: 17, 21.8%University of Gothenburg: 13, 35.8%Newcastle University: 13, 26.7%Uppsala University: 10, 33.4%University of Sheffield: 10, 35.2%University of Oslo: 10, 34.1%University of Helsinki: 13, 15.0%Monash UniversityLund UniversityLondon School of Eco…University of Birmin…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom 76.830.7%39.4×26 +73.0%
2Lund University Sweden 76.833.8%9.3×15 +164.0%
3Monash University Australia 74.841.0%6.4×14 +260.1%
4University of Birmingham United Kingdom 74.221.8%11.0×17 +202.7%
5University of Gothenburg Sweden 71.835.8%12.3×13 +60.8%
6Newcastle University United Kingdom 66.326.7%11.7×13 +87.2%
7Uppsala University Sweden 64.833.4%7.0×10 +184.3%
8University of Sheffield United Kingdom 64.535.2%6.9×10 +196.9%
9University of Oslo Norway 59.634.1%7.1×10 +99.3%
10University of Helsinki Finland 58.515.0%8.2×13 +208.5%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Gender, Security, and Conflict research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 47% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.