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Military Strategy and Technology

Military Strategy and Technology is a research topic within Control and Systems Engineering. Science Explorer counts 3.5k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the intersection of network centric warfare, organizational design, decision making, and command and control in military operations. It explores topics such as information superiority, autonomous systems, crisis management, and simulation modeling to support decision-making processes in complex military environments.

  • Network Centric Warfare
  • Organizational Design
  • Decision Making
  • Command and Control
  • Military Operations
  • Information Superiority
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Crisis Management
  • Simulation Modeling
  • Fuzzy-Based Decision Support
Research works
3.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
348
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+50%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Military Strategy and Technology

Which countries lead Military Strategy and Technology research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (198 and 118 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 198 works
  2. 2 China 118 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 46 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 42 works
  5. 5 Romania 40 works
  6. 6 Poland 37 works
  7. 7 India 35 works
  8. 8 Czechia 28 works
  9. 9 Germany 26 works
  10. 10 Russia 18 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: 33.8%China: 20.1%United Kingdom: 7.8%Ukraine: 7.1%6 others listed: 31.1%34%largest
United States198 · 33.8%China118 · 20.1%United Kingdom46 · 7.8%Ukraine42 · 7.1%6 others listed183 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Military Strategy and Technology research?

By volume in 2022-now, United States Department of Defense publishes the most Military Strategy and Technology research, followed by National University of Defense Technology and University of Defence.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States Department of DefenseUnited States 31 works
  2. 2 National University of Defense TechnologyChina 20 works
  3. 3 University of DefenceCzechia 15 works
  4. 4 Carol I National Defence UniversityRomania 11 works
  5. 5 Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces AcademyRomania 10 works
  6. 6 Atenisi InstituteTonga 7 works
  7. 7 Military University of Technology in WarsawPoland 7 works
  8. 8 National Defense UniversityUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 Constructing ExcellenceUnited Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Military Strategy and Technology?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Military Strategy and Technology include John Bannister Goodenough, David A. Wheeler and Thomas L. Saaty.

  1. 1 John Bannister Goodenough United States 175k citations
  2. 2 David A. Wheeler United States 125k citations
  3. 3 Thomas L. Saaty United States 122k citations
  4. 4 Robert West United Kingdom 102k 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 Military Strategy and Technology?

The most cited paper in Military Strategy and Technology is "Naturalistic Decision Making" (Gary A. Klein, 2008), with 2,227 citations. Next come "Presidential Decisionmaking in Foreign Policy: The Effective use of Information and Advice, by Alexander L. George" (580) and "Introduction to Operations Research" (476).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Naturalistic Decision Making Gary A. Klein · Human Factors The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Jun 2008 2,227
2 Presidential Decisionmaking in Foreign Policy: The Effective use of Information and Advice, by Alexander L. George Richard M. Pious · Political Science Quarterly 1980 580
3 Introduction to Operations Research Mahmut Parlar · Birkhäuser Boston eBooks Book chapter 2000 476
4 A review of sociotechnical systems theory: a classic concept for new command and control paradigms Guy H. Walker, Neville A. Stanton, Paul M. Salmon et al. · Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science 10 Jul 2008 386
5 Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World Tobias Borck · The RUSI Journal 3 Mar 2016 380
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Military Strategy and Technology research done?

The largest centres of Military Strategy and Technology research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Changsha (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bucharest and Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 34 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 24 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 23 works
  4. 4 ChangshaChina 22 works
  5. 5 BucharestRomania 21 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 19 works
  7. 7 Xi'anChina 18 works
  8. 8 BrnoCzechia 16 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 16 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BucharestRO · 20.5 works15×
  2. Washington D.C.US · 24.0 works6.9×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Military Strategy and Technology than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Military Strategy and Technology?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Defence, National University of Defense Technology and Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces Academy 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%10%20%mean 10.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of DefenceNational University …Nicolae Bălcescu Lan…Carol I National Def…
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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 DefenceCzechia 67.716.6%605.2×15 -39.5%
2National University of Defense TechnologyChina 61.711.7%32.4×20 +47.1%
3Nicolae Bălcescu Land Forces AcademyRomania 31.911.6%554.2×10 +98.8%
4Carol I National Defence UniversityRomania 20.12.5%701.7×11 +455.7%

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 Military Strategy and Technology, country by country

Is Military Strategy and Technology research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 50% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Military Strategy and Technology.

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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 Military Strategy and Technology as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Military Strategy and Technology0.0052% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Military Strategy and Technology 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%Military Strategy and Technology9.7% 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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