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Global Political and Economic Relations

Global Political and Economic Relations is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 9.2k research works in it since 1956. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the Eurasian economic integration, global trade, and geopolitics, with an emphasis on the Eurasian Economic Union, Belt and Road Initiative, high-tech sector, and digital economy. It explores topics such as international relations, regional integration, economic security, and sustainable development within the context of Eurasia.

  • Eurasian Economic Union
  • Global Trade
  • Geopolitics
  • International Relations
  • High-Tech Sector
  • Belt and Road Initiative
  • Regional Integration
  • Economic Security
  • Digital Economy
  • Sustainable Development
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
906
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
56% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Political and Economic Relations

Which countries lead Global Political and Economic Relations research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (1.7k and 496 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 496 works
  3. 3 United States 286 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 153 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 98 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 90 works
  7. 7 Poland 55 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 51 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 48 works
  10. 10 Vietnam 40 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: 55.9%China: 16.6%United States: 9.6%Ukraine: 5.1%6 others listed: 12.8%56%largest
Russia1,668 · 55.9%China496 · 16.6%United States286 · 9.6%Ukraine153 · 5.1%6 others listed383 · 12.8%

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

Which institutions lead Global Political and Economic Relations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Global Political and Economic Relations research, followed by Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Human Growth Foundation.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 357 works
  2. 2 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 117 works
  3. 3 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 81 works
  4. 4 Financial UniversityRussia 61 works
  5. 5 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 58 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 53 works
  7. 7 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 53 works
  8. 8 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 49 works
  9. 9 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 44 works
  10. 10 China Institutes of Contemporary International RelationsChina 43 works

What are the most cited papers in Global Political and Economic Relations?

The most cited paper in Global Political and Economic Relations is "The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion" (Mark Sedgwick, 2010), with 509 citations. Next come "The US–China trade war and Phase One agreement" (226) and "Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool: Weighing Humanitarian Impulses" (164).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion Mark Sedgwick · Terrorism and Political Violence 8 Sep 2010 509
2 The US–China trade war and Phase One agreement Chad P. Bown · Journal of Policy Modeling 22 Apr 2021 226
3 Sanctions as a Foreign Policy Tool: Weighing Humanitarian Impulses Thomas G. Weiss · Journal of Peace Research Sep 1999 164
4 The Difficulties and Dilemmas of International Intelligence Cooperation Stéphane Lefebvre · International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence Open access Oct 2003 144
5 Eurasian Economic Union: Current state and preliminary results Evgeny Y. Vinokurov · Russian Journal of Economics Open access Mar 2017 143
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global Political and Economic Relations research done?

The largest centres of Global Political and Economic Relations research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Beijing (China) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dushanbe, Vladivostok and Bishkek.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 945 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 152 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 137 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 95 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 56 works
  6. 6 WeatherfordUnited States 53 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 52 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 46 works
  9. 9 DushanbeTajikistan 40 works
  10. 10 AlmatyKazakhstan 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DushanbeTJ · 39.9 works33×
  2. VladivostokRU · 34.6 works31×
  3. BishkekKG · 23.3 works26×
  4. MoscowRU · 945.4 works26×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Political and Economic Relations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Political and Economic Relations?

Among universities, judged by research, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations and St Petersburg 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 14.59%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →National Research Un…St Petersburg Univer…Moscow State Institu…Lomonosov Moscow Sta…
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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
1National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 62.317.7%45.3×58 -9.4%
2Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 59.711.8%217.7×117 -27.3%
3St Petersburg UniversityRussia 59.015.7%35.4×52 -9.9%
4Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 58.510.2%16.4×44 +21.6%
5Petersburg State Transport UniversityRussia 56.721.7%47.9×10 +703.3%
6Weatherford CollegeUnited States 56.29.4%12.7×53 +160.3%
7Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 56.217.9%49.6×49 -37.3%
8Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 55.95.6%42.6×35 +36.6%
9Financial UniversityRussia 54.812.7%87.4×61 -8.5%
10Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 52.623.2%57.7×16 -26.7%

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 Global Political and Economic Relations, country by country

Is Global Political and Economic Relations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Global Political and Economic Relations.

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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 Global Political and Economic Relations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Global Political and Economic Relations 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%Global Political and Economic Relations10.0% in 202520102020

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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