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Global Security and Public Health

Global Security and Public Health is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 9.7k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the concept of securitization, particularly in the context of global health governance. It explores the securitization of various issues such as pandemics, infectious diseases, and terrorism, and delves into the intersection of security studies, international relations, and public health. The papers also discuss the role of political theory, risk management, and the Copenhagen School in shaping the discourse on securitization and biopolitics.

  • Securitization
  • Global Health
  • Security Studies
  • International Relations
  • Pandemics
  • Risk Management
  • Political Theory
  • Public Health
  • Copenhagen School
  • Biopolitics
Research works
9.7k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
986
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Security and Public Health

Which countries lead Global Security and Public Health research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (521 and 425 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 521 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 425 works
  3. 3 Germany 208 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 128 works
  5. 5 Australia 121 works
  6. 6 China 119 works
  7. 7 Canada 114 works
  8. 8 India 108 works
  9. 9 Italy 88 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 80 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: 27.3%United Kingdom: 22.2%Germany: 10.9%Türkiye: 6.7%6 others listed: 32.9%27%largest
United States521 · 27.3%United Kingdom425 · 22.2%Germany208 · 10.9%Türkiye128 · 6.7%6 others listed628 · 32.9%

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

Which institutions lead Global Security and Public Health research?

By volume in 2022-now, King's College London publishes the most Global Security and Public Health research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Chicago.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  3. 3 University of ChicagoUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 17 works
  5. 5 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 15 works
  6. 6 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 14 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 14 works
  10. 10 University of CopenhagenDenmark 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Security and Public Health?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Security and Public Health include Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Gordon Henry Guyatt and Virginia Braun.

  1. 1 Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta Pakistan 371k citations
  2. 2 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
  3. 3 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  4. 4 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  5. 5 Yousef Saleh Khader Jordan 274k citations
  6. 6 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Global Security and Public Health?

The most cited paper in Global Security and Public Health is "Power and interdependence" (Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye, 1973), with 1,928 citations. Next come "The European Union and the Securitization of Migration" (1,415) and "The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context" (1,205).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Power and interdependence Robert O. Keohane, Joseph S. Nye · Survival Jul 1973 1,928
2 The European Union and the Securitization of Migration Jef Huysmans · JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies Open access Dec 2000 1,415
3 The Three Faces of Securitization: Political Agency, Audience and Context Thierry Balzacq · European Journal of International Relations Jun 2005 1,205
4 Security as Practice — Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War Rita Floyd · Journal of International Relations and Development Jun 2007 1,148
5 Words, Images, Enemies: Securitization and International Politics Michael C. Williams · International Studies Quarterly 7 Nov 2003 1,143
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Where is Global Security and Public Health research done?

The largest centres of Global Security and Public Health research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Washington D.C. (United States), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Geneva, Birmingham and Oslo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 108 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 50 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 40 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 37 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 OsloNorway 31 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 28 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 28 works
  9. 9 CopenhagenDenmark 27 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GenevaCH · 25.3 works9.0×
  2. BirminghamGB · 22.8 works6.6×
  3. OsloNO · 30.6 works6.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Security and Public Health than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Security and Public Health?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Warwick, Durham University and King's College London 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 26.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of WarwickDurham UniversityUniversity of OxfordKing's College London
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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
1University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 85.539.8%12.2×16 +8.9%
2Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 72.425.1%11.2×12 +42.6%
3King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 70.718.1%8.9×22 -30.6%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 70.621.2%4.3×18 +2.6%
5London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 64.425.7%20.3×14 -27.3%
6University of SussexUnited Kingdom 63.920.3%16.3×12 +15.1%
7Leiden UniversityNetherlands 63.625.1%7.0×11 +12.2%
8University of AmsterdamNetherlands 61.632.8%5.8×10 -49.7%
9University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 60.533.4%6.1×9 +11.1%
10Georgetown UniversityUnited States 55.618.9%11.9×15 -2.9%

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 Global Security and Public Health, country by country

Is Global Security and Public Health research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Global Security and Public Health.

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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 Security and Public Health as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Global Security and Public Health 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 Security and Public Health9.7% 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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