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Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

Intelligence, Security, War Strategy is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% 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 intelligence studies, analysis, and security in the modern context. It includes discussions on open source intelligence (OSINT), international cooperation, ethical considerations, intelligence failures, and the impact of intelligence on international relations and policy-making.

  • Intelligence
  • Analysis
  • Security
  • Cooperation
  • Policy
  • OSINT
  • Ethics
  • Failures
  • International Relations
  • Espionage
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
968
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Intelligence, Security, War Strategy

Which countries lead Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (566 and 200 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 566 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 200 works
  3. 3 France 81 works
  4. 4 Russia 61 works
  5. 5 Australia 56 works
  6. 6 Canada 52 works
  7. 7 Germany 52 works
  8. 8 China 51 works
  9. 9 India 48 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 31 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: 47.3%United Kingdom: 16.7%France: 6.8%Russia: 5.1%6 others listed: 24.3%47%largest
United States566 · 47.3%United Kingdom200 · 16.7%France81 · 6.8%Russia61 · 5.1%6 others listed291 · 24.3%

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

Which institutions lead Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Defense publishes the most Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research, followed by King's College London and Knox College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  3. 3 Knox CollegeUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  5. 5 Film IndependentUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 National Intelligence UniversityUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 Honeywell (United States)United States 14 works
  8. 8 Georgetown UniversityUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  10. 10 Brunel University of LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Intelligence, Security, War Strategy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Intelligence, Security, War Strategy include Ronald C. Kessler, Ian J. Deary and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
  2. 2 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Intelligence, Security, War Strategy?

The most cited paper in Intelligence, Security, War Strategy is "Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon" (Ralph Langner, 2011), with 1,910 citations. Next come "Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage" (1,742) and "Common randomness in information theory and cryptography. I. Secret sharing" (1,385).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stuxnet: Dissecting a Cyberwarfare Weapon Ralph Langner · IEEE Security & Privacy May 2011 1,910
2 Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage Paul Ekman 1985 1,742
3 Common randomness in information theory and cryptography. I. Secret sharing Rudolf Ahlswede, Imre Csiszár · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Jul 1993 1,385
4 Advances in Cryptology — EUROCRYPT ’99 Jacques Stern · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paper 1999 903
5 Four Ethical Issues of the Information Age Richard O. Mason, Carr P. Collins, Edwin L. Cox · MIS Quarterly Mar 1986 877
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research done?

The largest centres of Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom), Paris (France) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 70 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 63 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 37 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 35 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 26 works
  6. 6 BucharestRomania 25 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 18 works
  9. 9 GalesburgUnited States 18 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 70.1 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Intelligence, Security, War Strategy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Intelligence, Security, War Strategy?

Among universities, judged by research, King's College London, Brunel University of London and Bar-Ilan University 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 11.43%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Brunel University of…King's College LondonAustralian National …Bar-Ilan 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
1King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 90.222.7%17.1×22 +90.1%
2Brunel University of LondonUnited Kingdom 81.028.6%51.5×12 +176.0%
3Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 64.420.9%24.8×10 +292.9%
4Australian National UniversityAustralia 62.022.0%11.1×8 +59.4%
5National Intelligence UniversityUnited States 54.71.9%1469.0×16 +44.4%
6University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 47.66.4%15.0×10 +0.6%
7Knox CollegeUnited States 44.40.0%1892.3×18 +209.9%
8George Mason UniversityUnited States 39.01.7%19.9×10 +197.4%
9Georgetown UniversityUnited States 37.31.5%21.5×14 -16.7%
10Maryland Institute College of ArtUnited States 33.08.6%3742.8×8 -

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 Intelligence, Security, War Strategy, country by country

Is Intelligence, Security, War Strategy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Intelligence, Security, War Strategy.

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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 Intelligence, Security, War Strategy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Intelligence, Security, War Strategy 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%Intelligence, Security, War Strategy9.0% 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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