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Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation

Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1956. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of digital sovereignty, focusing on its implications in transition economies such as Hungary and Iran. It covers a wide range of topics including information security, legal regulation of digital assets, communication regimes, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrency, and the impact on national security in the context of globalization.

  • Digital Sovereignty
  • Transition Economy
  • Information Security
  • Legal Regulation
  • Antibiotic Resistance
  • Communication Regimes
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cryptocurrency
  • National Security
  • Globalization
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation

Which countries lead Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (3.3k and 615 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 3.3k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 615 works
  3. 3 United States 472 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 223 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 150 works
  6. 6 Poland 130 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 128 works
  8. 8 Azerbaijan 125 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 121 works
  10. 10 China 115 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.

Russia: 61.6%Ukraine: 11.4%United States: 8.7%Kazakhstan: 4.1%6 others listed: 14.2%62%largest
Russia3,329 · 61.6%Ukraine615 · 11.4%United States472 · 8.7%Kazakhstan223 · 4.1%6 others listed769 · 14.2%

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

Which institutions lead Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research, followed by Kutafin Moscow State Law University and Financial University.

What are the most cited papers in Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation?

The most cited paper in Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation is "The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion" (Mark Sedgwick, 2010), with 509 citations. Next come "German Yearbook of International Law" (346) and "Contract law 2.0: ‘Smart’ contracts as the beginning of the end of classic contract law" (289).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Concept of Radicalization as a Source of Confusion Mark Sedgwick · Terrorism and Political Violence 8 Sep 2010 509
2 German Yearbook of International Law Sienho Yee · Chinese Journal of International Law 30 May 2017 346
3 Contract law 2.0: ‘Smart’ contracts as the beginning of the end of classic contract law Alexander Ivanovitch Savelyev · Information & Communications Technology Law 7 Apr 2017 289
4 Conspiracy Theories as a Russian Public Diplomacy Tool: The Case of Russia Today (RT) Ilya Yablokov · Politics Open access 28 Apr 2015 211
5 Why Russia attacked Ukraine: Strategic culture and radicalized narratives Elias Götz, Jørgen Staun · Contemporary Security Policy Jun 2022 172
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Where is Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research done?

The largest centres of Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Kazan’ (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vladikavkaz, Makhachkala and Simferopol.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 1.6k works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 267 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 226 works
  4. 4 Kazan’Russia 110 works
  5. 5 BakuAzerbaijan 108 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 102 works
  7. 7 WeatherfordUnited States 99 works
  8. 8 AlmatyKazakhstan 95 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 84 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 81 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VladikavkazRU · 21.6 works59×
  2. MakhachkalaRU · 32.5 works56×
  3. SimferopolUA · 27.3 works49×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation?

Among universities, judged by research, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Financial University and Moscow State 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.

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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
1Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 78.314.8%228.3×121 +15.7%
2Financial UniversityRussia 75.214.9%89.4×117 +66.4%
3Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 74.511.6%45.7×71 +0.3%
4Kyiv National University of Culture and ArtsUkraine 67.227.9%34.3×13 +49.2%
5Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 66.89.8%113.3×114 +10.8%
6Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 64.910.1%16.4×82 +7.8%
7Weatherford CollegeUnited States 64.89.0%12.6×99 +130.8%
8Azerbaijan State University of EconomicsAzerbaijan 59.018.5%29.9×10 +344.9%
9National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 58.210.1%31.0×74 -3.1%
10Baikal State UniversityRussia 57.912.0%73.0×24 +28.8%

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 Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation, country by country

Is Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation.

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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 Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation 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%Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation9.8% in 202520102020

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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