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Historical Influence and Diplomacy

Historical Influence and Diplomacy is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the history of diplomacy, cross-cultural relations, and international interactions, focusing on early modern and medieval Europe. It delves into topics such as diplomatic culture, gift-giving, news networks, and the role of religion in shaping international relations. The papers also analyze the dynamics of cross-confessional diplomacy and the impact of cultural analysis on diplomatic history.

  • Diplomacy
  • Early Modern
  • Cross-Confessional
  • International Relations
  • Cultural Analysis
  • Gift-giving
  • News Networks
  • Medieval Europe
  • Global Reach
  • Diplomatic Culture
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical Influence and Diplomacy

Which countries lead Historical Influence and Diplomacy research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (430 and 380 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 430 works
  2. 2 United States 380 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 213 works
  4. 4 France 199 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 185 works
  6. 6 Russia 135 works
  7. 7 Spain 119 works
  8. 8 Poland 116 works
  9. 9 Italy 89 works
  10. 10 Belgium 79 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.

Germany: 22.1%United States: 19.6%United Kingdom: 10.9%France: 10.2%6 others listed: 37.2%22%largest
Germany430 · 22.1%United States380 · 19.6%United Kingdom213 · 10.9%France199 · 10.2%6 others listed723 · 37.2%

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

Which institutions lead Historical Influence and Diplomacy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical Influence and Diplomacy research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Utrecht University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 52 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 41 works
  3. 3 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 28 works
  4. 4 Sax InstituteAustralia 26 works
  5. 5 Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and SciencesNetherlands 23 works
  6. 6 University of WarsawPoland 21 works
  7. 7 Leiden UniversityNetherlands 20 works
  8. 8 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 19 works
  9. 9 Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 19 works
  10. 10 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical Influence and Diplomacy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical Influence and Diplomacy include Wolfgang K. Huber, D. G. Charlton and Andrew Steptoe.

  1. 1 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  2. 2 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  3. 3 Andrew Steptoe United Kingdom 118k 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 Influence and Diplomacy?

The most cited paper in Historical Influence and Diplomacy is "Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille" (William H. Sewell, 1996), with 1,374 citations. Next come "Introduction: Inventing Traditions" (1,369) and "THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS" (470).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille William H. Sewell · Theory and Society Dec 1996 1,374
2 Introduction: Inventing Traditions Eric Hobsbawm · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 26 Mar 2012 1,369
3 THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS Tim Mason · History Workshop Journal Conference paper 1979 470
4 Exograms and Interdisciplinarity: History, the Extended Mind, and the Civilizing Process John David Sutton · The MIT Press eBooks Book chapter 21 May 2010 396
5 Nicholas Culpeper and His Books F. N. L. Poynter · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 1962 392
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Where is Historical Influence and Diplomacy research done?

The largest centres of Historical Influence and Diplomacy research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Moscow (Russia), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Utrecht, Leiden and Amsterdam.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 69 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 62 works
  3. 3 AmsterdamNetherlands 54 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 50 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 46 works
  6. 6 CopenhagenDenmark 44 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 44 works
  8. 8 WarsawPoland 42 works
  9. 9 UtrechtNetherlands 41 works
  10. 10 BerlinGermany 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. UtrechtNL · 41.2 works14×
  2. LeidenNL · 23.2 works13×
  3. AmsterdamNL · 54.0 works12×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical Influence and Diplomacy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Historical Influence and Diplomacy?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Helsinki, Utrecht University and Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts 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 16.15%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kyiv National Univer…University of HelsinkiUniversidad Complute…Utrecht University
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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 HelsinkiFinland 79.323.7%8.2×14 +82.3%
2Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 73.48.2%16.3×28 +24.5%
3Kyiv National University of Culture and ArtsUkraine 66.630.2%105.5×16 -3.1%
4Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 64.415.5%8.5×18 +40.9%
5University of AmsterdamNetherlands 64.37.7%13.2×19 +11.4%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.914.7%5.5×18 -8.2%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 62.014.4%5.5×16 -5.7%
8University of CopenhagenDenmark 61.017.2%7.7×17 +15.1%
9Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 59.413.0%25.6×18 +692.3%
10KU LeuvenBelgium 59.216.9%7.8×18 -31.7%

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 Influence and Diplomacy, country by country

Is Historical Influence and Diplomacy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% 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 Influence and Diplomacy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Historical Influence and Diplomacy 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 Influence and Diplomacy9.9% 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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