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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies is a research topic within Geography, Planning and Development. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 human settlement and impact on the Pacific Islands, focusing on topics such as Polynesian colonization, agricultural development, environmental changes, genetic diversity, and cultural history. It delves into the complex interactions between early human societies and island ecosystems, shedding light on the prehistoric migration patterns and environmental impact of Pacific settlement.

  • Pacific Islands
  • settlement
  • archaeology
  • agriculture
  • environmental impact
  • genetic diversity
  • Polynesian colonization
  • prehistoric migration
  • island ecosystems
  • cultural history
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Which countries lead Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (529 and 362 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 529 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 362 works
  3. 3 China 314 works
  4. 4 Australia 294 works
  5. 5 France 160 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 151 works
  7. 7 New Zealand 116 works
  8. 8 Japan 80 works
  9. 9 India 79 works
  10. 10 Germany 74 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: 24.5%Indonesia: 16.8%China: 14.5%Australia: 13.6%6 others listed: 30.6%24%largest
United States529 · 24.5%Indonesia362 · 16.8%China314 · 14.5%Australia294 · 13.6%6 others listed660 · 30.6%

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

Which institutions lead Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research, followed by Australian National University and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 84 works
  2. 2 Australian National UniversityAustralia 72 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 36 works
  4. 4 University of OtagoNew Zealand 28 works
  5. 5 University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of Social SciencesChina 26 works
  7. 7 National Research and Innovation AgencyIndonesia 22 works
  8. 8 The University of QueenslandAustralia 21 works
  9. 9 University of AucklandNew Zealand 20 works
  10. 10 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies include Paul Zimmet.

  1. 1 Paul Zimmet Australia 170k 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 Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies?

The most cited paper in Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies is "Influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals" (Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Abraham Epstein, 1981), with 6,154 citations. Next come "Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals" (4,882) and "INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP" (4,478).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Abraham Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Mar 1981 6,154
2 Influence of diet on the distribution of carbon isotopes in animals Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Abraham Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta May 1978 4,882
3 INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP Minze Stuiver, Paula J. Reimer, Édouard Bard et al. · Radiocarbon Open access 1998 4,478
4 IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon Open access 2009 4,333
5 Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation Lewis R. Binford · American Antiquity 1980 2,646
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research done?

The largest centres of Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Canberra (Australia), Paris (France) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Honolulu, Dunedin and Canberra.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 105 works
  2. 2 CanberraAustralia 88 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 71 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 60 works
  5. 5 HonoluluUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 SydneyAustralia 40 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 38 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 34 works
  10. 10 TokyoJapan 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HonoluluUS · 45.1 works42×
  2. DunedinNZ · 29.6 works34×
  3. CanberraAU · 87.8 works21×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Australian National University, Lanzhou University and The University of Queensland 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 14.8%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lanzhou UniversityUniversity of Chines…The University of Qu…Australian National …
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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
1Australian National UniversityAustralia 66.07.0%55.6×72 +6.7%
2Lanzhou UniversityChina 58.830.5%4.9×9 +127.4%
3The University of QueenslandAustralia 54.810.4%8.5×21 +18.1%
4University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 54.128.3%1.9×8 +43.0%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 51.016.0%5.5×14 +57.5%
6University of OtagoNew Zealand 46.36.2%37.0×28 -12.5%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 46.325.1%3.5×11 -18.9%
8University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States 46.29.2%47.4×27 -22.0%
9University of AucklandNew Zealand 46.012.4%14.3×20 -42.3%
10Victoria University of WellingtonNew Zealand 45.12.9%27.9×15 +74.0%

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 Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, country by country

Is Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Pacific and Southeast Asian 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 Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pacific and Southeast Asian 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%Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies10.5% 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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