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Historical and Architectural Studies

Historical and Architectural Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 the intersection of astronomy, cultural landscapes, and ancient architecture, focusing on topics such as religious orientation, solar alignments, ethno-botanical studies, and megalithic structures. It delves into the historical astronomy practices of various civilizations, urban planning influenced by astronomical considerations, and the role of celestial phenomena in shaping ancient beliefs and architectural designs.

  • Archaeoastronomy
  • Cultural Landscapes
  • Religious Orientation
  • Solar Alignments
  • Ancient Architecture
  • Astronomical Practices
  • Urban Planning
  • Historical Astronomy
  • Ethno-Botanical Studies
  • Megalithic Structures
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Architectural Studies

Which countries lead Historical and Architectural Studies research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (404 and 208 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 404 works
  2. 2 India 208 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 149 works
  4. 4 Italy 135 works
  5. 5 Spain 107 works
  6. 6 France 100 works
  7. 7 Iran 79 works
  8. 8 Russia 75 works
  9. 9 Romania 62 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 56 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: 29.4%India: 15.1%United Kingdom: 10.8%Italy: 9.8%6 others listed: 34.9%29%largest
United States404 · 29.4%India208 · 15.1%United Kingdom149 · 10.8%Italy135 · 9.8%6 others listed480 · 34.9%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Architectural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical and Architectural Studies research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Politecnico di Torino.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 34 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 24 works
  3. 3 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 14 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 14 works
  5. 5 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 14 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 11 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 10 works
  10. 10 Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 10 works

What are the most cited papers in Historical and Architectural Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical and Architectural Studies is "Geochim. cosmochim. acta" (Surendra Kumar Saxena, Y. Fei, 1988), with 1,769 citations. Next come "Geochim. cosmochim. acta" (1,339) and "Rewrite the Stars" (604).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Geochim. cosmochim. acta Surendra Kumar Saxena, Y. Fei · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Oct 1988 1,769
2 Geochim. cosmochim. acta Alan E. Rubin, JOHN T. WASSON · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Oct 1988 1,339
3 Rewrite the Stars Xu Ma, Xiyang Dai, Yue Bai et al. Conference paper 16 Jun 2024 604
4 Traditional use of medicinal plants among Kalasha, Ismaeli and Sunni groups in Chitral District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan Hassan Sher, Rainer Willi Bussmann, Robbie E. Hart et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Open access 3 May 2016 597
5 The Political Character of the Classical Roman Republic, 200–151 B.C. Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1984 398
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical and Architectural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Architectural Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Tehran (Iran), London (United Kingdom) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 42 works
  2. 2 TehranIran 34 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 30 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 22 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 22 works
  8. 8 New DelhiIndia 21 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 19 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 17 works
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Where is the best place to study Historical and Architectural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Sapienza University of Rome 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%10%20%mean 9.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Ca' Foscari Universi…Sapienza University …Islamic Azad Univers…University of Oxford
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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
1Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 75.523.7%28.8×14 +245.4%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 47.17.0%7.2×24 -35.7%
3Sapienza University of RomeItaly 43.812.2%4.8×11 +7.0%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 43.06.9%3.7×10 +188.5%
5Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 42.42.5%12.5×9 +53.1%
6Politecnico di TorinoItaly 41.26.2%16.1×14 -31.3%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 37.617.2%3.5×8 -5.7%
8Weatherford CollegeUnited States 34.09.1%4.3×11 +53.0%
9Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 27.65.7%5.3×9 +87.2%
10Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 25.00.6%33.5×10 +186.2%

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 Architectural Studies, country by country

Is Historical and Architectural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Historical and Architectural Studies.

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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 Architectural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0095% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Historical and Architectural 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 Architectural Studies10.4% 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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