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Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies

Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 32k 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 and multifaceted dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, focusing on issues of ethnic identity, occupation, settler colonialism, nationalism, discrimination, human rights, segregation, and the impact of the Intifada. It delves into the historical, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this enduring conflict in the Middle East.

  • Israel
  • Palestine
  • Ethnic Identity
  • Occupation
  • Settler Colonialism
  • Nationalism
  • Discrimination
  • Human Rights
  • Segregation
  • Intifada
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies

Which countries lead Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Israel publish the most (1.4k and 823 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 Israel 823 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 552 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 272 works
  5. 5 France 217 works
  6. 6 Germany 202 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 197 works
  8. 8 Canada 181 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 158 works
  10. 10 Australia 157 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: 34.3%Israel: 19.6%United Kingdom: 13.1%Türkiye: 6.5%6 others listed: 26.5%34%largest
United States1,440 · 34.3%Israel823 · 19.6%United Kingdom552 · 13.1%Türkiye272 · 6.5%6 others listed1,112 · 26.5%

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

Which institutions lead Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Hebrew University of Jerusalem publishes the most Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research, followed by Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 133 works
  2. 2 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 125 works
  3. 3 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 101 works
  4. 4 University of HaifaIsrael 88 works
  5. 5 Ben-Gurion University of the NegevIsrael 72 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 67 works
  7. 7 Film IndependentUnited States 47 works
  8. 8 Ariel UniversityIsrael 46 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 38 works
  10. 10 University of JordanJordan 38 works

Who are the leading researchers in Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies include Robert A. Weinberg, Pierre Bourdıeu and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Robert A. Weinberg United States 301k citations
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Michael J. Mack United States 154k citations
  5. 5 Bryan Williams United Kingdom 149k citations
  6. 6 David H. Weinberg United States 146k citations
  7. 7 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  8. 8 Ronald W. Davis United States 138k 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 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies?

The most cited paper in Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies is "Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model" (Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, 2000), with 2,199 citations. Next come "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival" (1,348) and "The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement" (1,021).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Common Ingroup Identity Model Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio 2000 2,199
2 Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood · Cultural Anthropology Open access May 2001 1,348
3 The Deportation Regime: Sovereignty, Space, and the Freedom of Movement Nicholas De Genova, Nathalie Peutz · Goldsmiths (University of London) Book chapter 2010 1,021
4 Crossroads Tempered Radicalism and the Politics of Ambivalence and Change DEBRA E. MEYERSON, Maureen A. Scully · Organization Science Oct 1995 831
5 The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam Talal Asad · Qui Parle 1996 772
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research done?

The largest centres of Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research in 2022-now are Jerusalem (Israel), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Ramat Gan (Israel). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bīr Zayt and Nablus.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JerusalemIsrael 188 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 157 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 137 works
  4. 4 Ramat GanIsrael 130 works
  5. 5 Tel AvivIsrael 127 works
  6. 6 HaifaIsrael 104 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 100 works
  8. 8 BeershebaIsrael 80 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 78 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Bīr ZaytPS · 20.4 works136×
  2. NablusPS · 32.7 works61×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Lebanese American University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Newcastle University 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%20%40%60%mean 25.67%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Newcastle UniversityLebanese American Un…Doha Institute for G…Hebrew University of…
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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
1Lebanese American UniversityLebanon 69.139.5%29.7×18 +58.7%
2Doha Institute for Graduate StudiesQatar 64.235.1%214.8×18 +84.5%
3Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 64.050.2%4.1×11 +52.4%
4Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 63.714.0%46.0×134 +7.0%
5An-Najah National UniversityPalestine 59.023.8%72.3×33 +33.3%
6Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 58.528.7%10.0×20 +100.2%
7University of HaifaIsrael 58.315.6%70.6×88 +2.4%
8Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 57.811.1%83.4×125 +2.6%
9Ariel UniversityIsrael 57.223.7%66.7×46 +14.6%
10Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 55.715.0%22.9×101 -12.3%

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 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies, country by country

Is Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Jewish and Middle Eastern 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 Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies0.027% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Jewish and Middle Eastern 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%Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies10.2% 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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