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Historical and Political Studies

Historical and Political Studies is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 3.3k research works in it since 1956. 10.6% 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 including the construction of bureaucracies, political dynamics, history, cinema, education, religion, social sciences, public policy, media, and artificial intelligence. It explores the intersections of bureaucracy and politics in various contexts and examines the influence of historical, cultural, and technological factors on these domains.

  • Bureaucracy
  • Politics
  • History
  • Cinema
  • Education
  • Religion
  • Social Sciences
  • Public Policy
  • Media
  • Artificial Intelligence
Research works
3.3k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
349
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Political Studies

Which countries lead Historical and Political Studies research?

By volume, France and Türkiye publish the most (356 and 91 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 356 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 91 works
  3. 3 Russia 74 works
  4. 4 United States 51 works
  5. 5 Hungary 36 works
  6. 6 Canada 28 works
  7. 7 ?? 28 works
  8. 8 Spain 24 works
  9. 9 Brazil 18 works
  10. 10 Belgium 16 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.

France: 49.4%Türkiye: 12.6%Russia: 10.2%United States: 7.1%6 others listed: 20.7%49%largest
France356 · 49.4%Türkiye91 · 12.6%Russia74 · 10.2%United States51 · 7.1%6 others listed149 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Political Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical and Political Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 71 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 14 works
  4. 4 Université de StrasbourgFrance 13 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 12 works
  6. 6 Université de Caen NormandieFrance 11 works
  7. 7 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 9 works
  8. 8 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 8 works
  9. 9 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 8 works
  10. 10 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical and Political Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical and Political Studies include M. Lefebvre, Philippe Dúbois and Gilles Deleuze.

  1. 1 M. Lefebvre France 119k citations
  2. 2 Philippe Dúbois Belgium 67k citations
  3. 3 Gilles Deleuze France 66k 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 Political Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical and Political Studies is "Political Action: Mass Participation in Five Western Democracies, by Samuel H. Barnes and Max Kaase" (Roberta S. Sigel, 1980), with 739 citations. Next come "STUDIES ON INFLUENZA IN THE PANDEMIC OF 1957-1958. II. PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF INFLUENZA*†" (486) and "Democratic Practice after the Revolution: The Case of Portugal and Beyond" (158).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Political Action: Mass Participation in Five Western Democracies, by Samuel H. Barnes and Max Kaase Roberta S. Sigel · Political Science Quarterly 1980 739
2 STUDIES ON INFLUENZA IN THE PANDEMIC OF 1957-1958. II. PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF INFLUENZA*† Donald B. Louria, Herbert L. Blumenfeld, John Ellis et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation Open access 1959 486
3 Democratic Practice after the Revolution: The Case of Portugal and Beyond Robert M. Fishman · Politics & Society 13 Apr 2011 158
4 Torsion points on elliptic curves defined over quadratic fields M. A. Kenku, Fumiyuki Momose · Nagoya Mathematical Journal Open access Mar 1988 155
5 Halbwachs’ studies in collective memory: A founding text for contemporary ‘memory studies’? Sarah Gensburger · Journal of Classical Sociology 24 Oct 2016 137
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Where is Historical and Political Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Political Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Moscow (Russia), Budapest (Hungary) and Lyon (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lyon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 119 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 27 works
  3. 3 BudapestHungary 26 works
  4. 4 LyonFrance 23 works
  5. 5 AnkaraTürkiye 19 works
  6. 6 RennesFrance 16 works
  7. 7 StrasbourgFrance 15 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 15 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 12 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LyonFR · 23.3 works29×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Université de Lorraine and Weatherford College 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%5%10%mean 3.48889%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Weatherford CollegeUniversité de LyonUniversité de LorraineUniversité de Strasb…
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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
1Université de LyonFrance 73.35.0%27.6×14 -15.2%
2Université de LorraineFrance 58.84.1%38.8×12 +58.0%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 50.79.3%7.7×8 +102.8%
4Université de StrasbourgFrance 47.72.0%54.2×12 +0.7%
5Nantes UniversitéFrance 45.03.1%43.2×8 +64.8%
6Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 42.22.2%17.2×9 +11.3%
7Université de Caen NormandieFrance 39.50.9%78.3×11 +177.9%
8Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 27.61.6%25.6×8 +28.6%
9Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 19.23.2%86.4×8 -30.4%

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 Historical and Political Studies, country by country

Is Historical and Political Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Historical and Political 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 Political Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0030% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Historical and Political Studies0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical and Political 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 Political Studies9.4% 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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