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Historical and Archaeological Studies

Historical and Archaeological Studies is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of the Viking Age, including diaspora, identity, settlements, material culture, religion, and cultural exchange in Scandinavia and neighboring regions. It delves into the archaeological, historical, and cultural dimensions of this pivotal period in medieval history.

  • Viking Age
  • Scandinavia
  • Medieval
  • Archaeology
  • Religion
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Material Culture
  • Settlements
  • Rituals
  • Trade
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-24%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Archaeological Studies

Which countries lead Historical and Archaeological Studies research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (644 and 291 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 644 works
  2. 2 United States 291 works
  3. 3 Germany 237 works
  4. 4 Denmark 219 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 190 works
  6. 6 Russia 142 works
  7. 7 France 132 works
  8. 8 Sweden 127 works
  9. 9 Norway 120 works
  10. 10 Czechia 102 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.

Poland: 29.2%United States: 13.2%Germany: 10.7%Denmark: 9.9%6 others listed: 36.9%29%largest
Poland644 · 29.2%United States291 · 13.2%Germany237 · 10.7%Denmark219 · 9.9%6 others listed813 · 36.9%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Archaeological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Historical and Archaeological Studies research, followed by Ministry of Culture and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 131 works
  2. 2 Ministry of CultureIndia 65 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 65 works
  4. 4 National Museum of DenmarkDenmark 58 works
  5. 5 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 51 works
  6. 6 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 51 works
  7. 7 University of WarsawPoland 43 works
  8. 8 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 42 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 42 works
  10. 10 Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical and Archaeological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical and Archaeological Studies include Stefan Schreiber.

  1. 1 Stefan Schreiber Germany 163k 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 Historical and Archaeological Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical and Archaeological Studies is "A palaeoecological study of holocene peat bog sections in Germany and The Netherlands, based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macro- and microscopic remains of fungi, algae, cormophytes and animals" (Bas Van Geel, 1978), with 849 citations. Next come "Deglaciation of Fennoscandia" (682) and "Environmental reconstruction of a Roman Period settlement site in Uitgeest (The Netherlands), with special reference to coprophilous fungi" (630).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A palaeoecological study of holocene peat bog sections in Germany and The Netherlands, based on the analysis of pollen, spores and macro- and microscopic remains of fungi, algae, cormophytes and animals Bas Van Geel · Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1978 849
2 Deglaciation of Fennoscandia Arjen Peter Stroeven, Clas Hättestrand, Johan Klemån et al. · Quaternary Science Reviews Open access 24 Oct 2015 682
3 Environmental reconstruction of a Roman Period settlement site in Uitgeest (The Netherlands), with special reference to coprophilous fungi Bas Van Geel, Janneke Buurman, Otto Brinkkemper et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science 7 Apr 2003 630
4 Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity Jonathan Μ. Hall · Cambridge Archaeological Journal Oct 1998 536
5 How Fast Was Wild Wheat Domesticated? Ken-ichi Tanno, George Willcox · Science 30 Mar 2006 534
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical and Archaeological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Archaeological Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Copenhagen (Denmark), Krakow (Poland) and Aarhus (Denmark). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Toruń, Reykjavik and Delhi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 215 works
  2. 2 CopenhagenDenmark 101 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 94 works
  4. 4 AarhusDenmark 69 works
  5. 5 DelhiIndia 65 works
  6. 6 BudapestHungary 64 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 63 works
  8. 8 OsloNorway 61 works
  9. 9 MoscowRussia 59 works
  10. 10 PoznańPoland 58 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ToruńPL · 41.5 works50×
  2. ReykjavikIS · 27.0 works38×
  3. DelhiIN · 65.5 works35×
  4. AarhusDK · 68.8 works22×
  5. WarsawPL · 215.1 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical and Archaeological Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Historical and Archaeological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Uppsala University, University of Oslo and University of Warsaw 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 21.74%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kyiv National Univer…University of OsloUppsala UniversityUniversity of Warsaw
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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
1Uppsala UniversitySweden 72.713.1%19.1×30 +15.0%
2University of OsloNorway 72.319.4%18.5×34 -13.8%
3University of WarsawPoland 68.212.3%29.0×43 +47.8%
4Kyiv National University of Culture and ArtsUkraine 68.246.6%104.2×19 -67.1%
5University of IcelandIceland 67.919.5%59.2×23 -15.4%
6Tallinn UniversityEstonia 67.228.9%58.4×9 +116.3%
7University of HelsinkiFinland 65.817.8%11.7×24 +4.9%
8Charles UniversityCzechia 65.327.8%7.1×10 +53.8%
9Stockholm UniversitySweden 63.613.8%28.7×28 -26.7%
10Masaryk UniversityCzechia 63.418.2%21.2×18 +21.9%

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 Historical and Archaeological Studies, country by country

Is Historical and Archaeological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 24% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Historical and Archaeological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Historical and Archaeological Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical and Archaeological Studies 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%Historical and Archaeological Studies10.1% 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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