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Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of media and politics in the Middle East, with a focus on countries such as Qatar, Rwanda, Yemen, and Oman. It delves into topics such as the influence of media on political events, the role of media in conflicts and uprisings, and the impact of media on public perception and policy-making. Additionally, it examines the portrayal of genocide, tribal politics, and foreign policy in the media within this region.

  • Media
  • Politics
  • Middle East
  • Qatar
  • Rwanda
  • Yemen
  • GCC
  • Arab Spring
  • Oman
  • Genocide
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts

Which countries lead Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (609 and 319 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 609 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 319 works
  3. 3 France 297 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 287 works
  5. 5 Russia 195 works
  6. 6 Iraq 142 works
  7. 7 Israel 134 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 132 works
  9. 9 Germany 125 works
  10. 10 Rwanda 105 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: 26.0%United Kingdom: 13.6%France: 12.7%Türkiye: 12.2%6 others listed: 35.5%26%largest
United States609 · 26.0%United Kingdom319 · 13.6%France297 · 12.7%Türkiye287 · 12.2%6 others listed832 · 35.5%

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

Which institutions lead Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Kigali.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 75 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 58 works
  3. 3 University of KigaliRwanda 52 works
  4. 4 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 44 works
  5. 5 Qatar UniversityQatar 35 works
  6. 6 University of RwandaRwanda 29 works
  7. 7 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 28 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  9. 9 University of HaifaIsrael 21 works
  10. 10 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts include Martin McKee, Michael E. Porter and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  4. 4 Paul Slovic United States 125k 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 Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts?

The most cited paper in Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts is "Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization" (Liisa H. Malkki, 1996), with 1,675 citations. Next come "Purity and Danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo" (1,279) and "Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring?" (714).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Speechless Emissaries: Refugees, Humanitarianism, and Dehistoricization Liisa H. Malkki · Cultural Anthropology Open access Aug 1996 1,675
2 Purity and Danger: An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo Charles Madge · Sociology May 1967 1,279
3 Opening Closed Regimes: What Was the Role of Social Media During the Arab Spring? Philip N. Howard, Aiden Duffy, Deen Freelon et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal PreprintOpen access 2015 714
4 Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious John E. Joseph 28 May 2004 632
5 Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa Stephen Ellis · American Anthropologist 25 May 2006 567
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Where is Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research done?

The largest centres of Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Paris (France), London (United Kingdom) and Doha (Qatar). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Thika, Kigali and Butare.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 136 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 126 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 91 works
  4. 4 DohaQatar 79 works
  5. 5 KigaliRwanda 72 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 72 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  8. 8 AnkaraTürkiye 56 works
  9. 9 ThikaKenya 44 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 43 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ThikaKE · 44.4 works176×
  2. KigaliRW · 72.4 works120×
  3. ButareRW · 29.6 works90×
  4. DohaQA · 79.4 works21×
  5. MuscatOM · 27.4 works18×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts?

Among universities, judged by research, United Arab Emirates University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Qatar 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 24.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Deakin UniversityUnited Arab Emirates…Doha Institute for G…Qatar 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
1United Arab Emirates UniversityUnited Arab Emirates 72.243.5%11.1×10 +159.7%
2Doha Institute for Graduate StudiesQatar 71.335.6%332.0×19 +140.6%
3Qatar UniversityQatar 67.223.7%32.1×35 -5.1%
4Deakin UniversityAustralia 64.743.9%6.1×10 +30.2%
5University of RwandaRwanda 59.89.9%104.1×30 +66.1%
6Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom 59.025.7%14.5×14 +122.1%
7King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.614.0%7.5×24 +25.8%
8University of KigaliRwanda 57.40.8%464.7×52 +924.9%
9Rice UniversityUnited States 53.738.2%10.8×9 +11.2%
10University of HaifaIsrael 53.312.9%25.1×21 +55.5%

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 Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts, country by country

Is Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts.

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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 Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts 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.

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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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