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Historical and Environmental Studies

Historical and Environmental Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 9.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to territorial studies, environmental impact, and regional development in Southern Europe and North Africa. It includes research on territorial planning, urban geography, water quality, sediment characterization, industrialization, cultural heritage, and historical ecology. The papers provide insights into the complex interactions between human activities and the environment in these regions.

  • Territorial Planning
  • Environmental Impact
  • Regional Development
  • Urban Geography
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Water Quality
  • Sediment Characterization
  • Industrialization
  • Social Innovation
  • Historical Ecology
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
949
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
67% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Environmental Studies

Which countries lead Historical and Environmental Studies research?

By volume, Italy and France publish the most (1.2k and 262 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 1.2k works
  2. 2 France 262 works
  3. 3 United States 82 works
  4. 4 Spain 78 works
  5. 5 Côte d'Ivoire 45 works
  6. 6 Brazil 25 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 23 works
  8. 8 Morocco 23 works
  9. 9 Germany 23 works
  10. 10 ?? 20 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.

Italy: 67.1%France: 14.8%United States: 4.7%Spain: 4.4%6 others listed: 9.0%67%largest
Italy1,184 · 67.1%France262 · 14.8%United States82 · 4.7%Spain78 · 4.4%6 others listed158 · 9.0%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Environmental Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical and Environmental Studies research, followed by University of Florence and University of Milan.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 96 works
  2. 2 University of FlorenceItaly 81 works
  3. 3 University of MilanItaly 64 works
  4. 4 University of BolognaItaly 64 works
  5. 5 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 56 works
  6. 6 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 54 works
  7. 7 University of FerraraItaly 45 works
  8. 8 University of TurinItaly 40 works
  9. 9 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 28 works
  10. 10 University of PaduaItaly 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical and Environmental Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical and Environmental Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Carlo Maria Croce.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Carlo Maria Croce United States 200k citations
  4. 4 Francesco Saverio Violante Italy 181k 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 Environmental Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical and Environmental Studies is "Land, terrain, territory" (Stuart Elden, 2010), with 930 citations. Next come "Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis" (709) and "The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini" (592).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Land, terrain, territory Stuart Elden · Progress in Human Geography Open access 21 Apr 2010 930
2 Culture and Truth. The Remaking of Social Analysis Aracy Lopes da Silva · Revista de Antropologia Open access 4 Dec 1992 709
3 The origins of the Gini index: extracts from Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) by Corrado Gini Lidia Ceriani, Paolo Verme · The Journal of Economic Inequality 9 Jun 2011 592
4 Rural landscape, nature conservation and culture: Some notes on research trends and management approaches from a (southern) European perspective Mauro Agnoletti · Landscape and Urban Planning 13 Apr 2014 360
5 Rivista storica italiana Gerardo Godoy Echiburú · Anales de la Universidad de Chile Open access 1965 305
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical and Environmental Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Environmental Studies research in 2022-now are Rome (Italy), Milan (Italy), Florence (Italy) and Bologna (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Macerata, Ferrara and Venice.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 RomeItaly 158 works
  2. 2 MilanItaly 142 works
  3. 3 FlorenceItaly 95 works
  4. 4 BolognaItaly 71 works
  5. 5 VeniceItaly 71 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 69 works
  7. 7 NaplesItaly 61 works
  8. 8 TurinItaly 59 works
  9. 9 FerraraItaly 45 works
  10. 10 AbidjanCôte d'Ivoire 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MacerataIT · 23.0 works256×
  2. FerraraIT · 45.4 works113×
  3. VeniceIT · 71.0 works113×
  4. AbidjanCI · 29.3 works74×
  5. FlorenceIT · 94.8 works59×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Historical and Environmental Studies on the map

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

Among universities, judged by research, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, University of Basilicata and University of Florence 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 12.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université Félix Hou…University of Basili…University of FlorenceUniversity of Bologna
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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
1Université Félix Houphouët-BoignyCôte d'Ivoire 62.832.0%91.3×14 +26.1%
2University of BasilicataItaly 62.228.2%106.3×11 -6.0%
3University of FlorenceItaly 61.18.4%78.9×81 +74.7%
4University of BolognaItaly 58.66.2%44.8×64 +25.0%
5University of FerraraItaly 55.86.9%150.2×45 +40.9%
6University of MilanItaly 55.65.0%57.5×64 +26.9%
7University of TurinItaly 53.58.9%42.7×40 +16.2%
8Sapienza University of RomeItaly 53.08.0%27.8×56 +9.8%
9University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 51.014.2%34.2×17 +67.7%
10Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 49.28.4%130.5×54 +10.5%

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 Environmental Studies, country by country

Is Historical and Environmental Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Historical and Environmental 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 Environmental Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Historical and Environmental Studies0.0098% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical and Environmental 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 Environmental Studies9.3% 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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