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Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics

Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 21k 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 complex political, cultural, and economic relations between Australia and European countries, particularly focusing on the Cold War era, European integration, postcolonial theory, and the diplomatic interactions between the European Union and Australia. It also delves into the historical, geopolitical, and societal dynamics of Eastern European nations in relation to Western culture and classical traditions.

  • European Union
  • Australia
  • Cold War
  • Eastern Europe
  • Cultural Integration
  • Diplomacy
  • Soviet Union
  • International Relations
  • European Integration
  • Postcolonial Theory
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics

Which countries lead Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research?

By volume, the United States and Hungary publish the most (517 and 425 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 517 works
  2. 2 Hungary 425 works
  3. 3 Poland 349 works
  4. 4 Russia 339 works
  5. 5 Germany 287 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 222 works
  7. 7 Lithuania 155 works
  8. 8 France 126 works
  9. 9 Romania 122 works
  10. 10 Latvia 106 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: 19.5%Hungary: 16.1%Poland: 13.2%Russia: 12.8%6 others listed: 38.4%20%largest
United States517 · 19.5%Hungary425 · 16.1%Poland349 · 13.2%Russia339 · 12.8%6 others listed1,017 · 38.4%

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

Which institutions lead Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research, followed by Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 107 works
  2. 2 Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungary 71 works
  3. 3 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 66 works
  4. 4 University of LatviaLatvia 61 works
  5. 5 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 54 works
  6. 6 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 52 works
  7. 7 University of WarsawPoland 43 works
  8. 8 University of SzegedHungary 40 works
  9. 9 Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 39 works
  10. 10 Czech Academy of SciencesCzechia 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics include Evan E. Eichler, Peter W.F. Wilson and David H. Weinberg.

  1. 1 Evan E. Eichler United States 195k citations
  2. 2 Peter W.F. Wilson United States 161k citations
  3. 3 David H. Weinberg United States 146k citations
  4. 4 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  5. 5 J. Conway Germany 139k 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 Geopolitical and Social Dynamics?

The most cited paper in Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics is "Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality" (Eric J. Hobsbawm, 1995), with 4,191 citations. Next come "Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe" (1,425) and "The Uniting of Europe. Political, Social and Economical Forces, 1950-1957." (1,150).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Nations and nationalism since 1780 programme, myth, reality Eric J. Hobsbawm 1995 4,191
2 Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe Robert Legvold, Rogers Brubaker · Foreign Affairs 1997 1,425
3 The Uniting of Europe. Political, Social and Economical Forces, 1950-1957. Frederick Victor Meyer, Elizabeth Haas · The Economic Journal Mar 1959 1,150
4 Nations and nationalism since 1789: Programme, myth, reality Peter Baldwin · History of European Ideas 1992 783
5 The silent counter-revolution Piero Ignazi · European Journal of Political Research Jul 1992 772
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research done?

The largest centres of Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research in 2022-now are Budapest (Hungary), Moscow (Russia), Vilnius (Lithuania) and Warsaw (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vilnius, Riga and Pécs.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BudapestHungary 274 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 180 works
  3. 3 VilniusLithuania 128 works
  4. 4 WarsawPoland 118 works
  5. 5 RigaLatvia 91 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 68 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 68 works
  8. 8 PragueCzechia 65 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 56 works
  10. 10 KrakowPoland 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VilniusLT · 128.0 works58×
  2. RigaLV · 91.3 works47×
  3. PécsHU · 31.7 works40×
  4. SzegedHU · 42.7 works39×
  5. BudapestHU · 274.1 works37×
  6. DebrecenHU · 38.1 works34×
  7. TartuEE · 27.9 works30×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Haifa, University of Warsaw and University of Tartu 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 14.95%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of HaifaUniversity of TartuUniversity of WarsawEötvös Loránd Univer…
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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 HaifaIsrael 64.234.3%12.5×9 +134.8%
2University of WarsawPoland 62.314.0%25.5×43 +41.1%
3University of TartuEstonia 61.518.2%36.5×24 -0.9%
4Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 61.27.1%66.1×66 +94.9%
5University of LatviaLatvia 54.47.6%133.9×61 -8.8%
6European University InstituteItaly 52.025.9%41.3×10 -43.9%
7Central European UniversityAustria 51.913.1%86.3×14 +23.5%
8University of SzegedHungary 50.24.6%48.7×40 +168.1%
9Vilnius UniversityLithuania 50.011.2%66.5×54 -17.2%
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 49.313.5%5.8×17 +94.2%

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 Geopolitical and Social Dynamics, country by country

Is Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Geopolitical and Social Dynamics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics 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 Geopolitical and Social Dynamics9.8% 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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