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South Asian Studies and Conflicts

South Asian Studies and Conflicts is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 issues surrounding the Kashmir conflict, including its historical roots, ethnic and religious dimensions, human rights implications, and the impact on Indian federalism. The papers also delve into related topics such as insurgency, colonialism, militarization, and tribal dynamics in Northeast India.

  • Kashmir
  • Conflict
  • Federalism
  • Ethnicity
  • Insurgency
  • Human Rights
  • Colonialism
  • Northeast India
  • Militarization
  • Tribal
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+44%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
South Asian Studies and Conflicts

Which countries lead South Asian Studies and Conflicts research?

By volume, India and the United States publish the most (3.1k and 589 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 3.1k works
  2. 2 United States 589 works
  3. 3 Pakistan 419 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 243 works
  5. 5 Nepal 150 works
  6. 6 Bangladesh 108 works
  7. 7 China 83 works
  8. 8 Australia 76 works
  9. 9 Canada 64 works
  10. 10 Germany 62 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.

India: 63.2%United States: 12.1%Pakistan: 8.6%United Kingdom: 5.0%6 others listed: 11.2%63%largest
India3,078 · 63.2%United States589 · 12.1%Pakistan419 · 8.6%United Kingdom243 · 5.0%6 others listed544 · 11.2%

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

Which institutions lead South Asian Studies and Conflicts research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Delhi publishes the most South Asian Studies and Conflicts research, followed by Tribhuvan University and Jawaharlal Nehru University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of DelhiIndia 111 works
  2. 2 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 98 works
  3. 3 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 85 works
  4. 4 Manipur UniversityIndia 58 works
  5. 5 Annamalai UniversityIndia 42 works
  6. 6 Gauhati UniversityIndia 40 works
  7. 7 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 40 works
  8. 8 Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia 39 works
  9. 9 University of KashmirIndia 38 works
  10. 10 Assam UniversityIndia 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in South Asian Studies and Conflicts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on South Asian Studies and Conflicts include Rattan Lal.

  1. 1 Rattan Lal United States 126k 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 South Asian Studies and Conflicts?

The most cited paper in South Asian Studies and Conflicts is "blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state" (Akhil Gupta, 1995), with 2,515 citations. Next come "Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization" (1,433) and "Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes" (1,178).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist May 1995 2,515
2 Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization Ananya Roy · Planning Theory 12 Jan 2009 1,433
3 Estimation of stature from long bones of American Whites and Negroes Mildred Trotter, Goldine C. Gleser · American Journal of Physical Anthropology Dec 1952 1,178
4 The Economics of Caste and of the Rat Race and Other Woeful Tales George A. Akerlof · The Quarterly Journal of Economics Nov 1976 1,017
5 The Consequences of Negotiated Settlements in Civil Wars, 1945–1993 Roy E. Licklider · American Political Science Review Sep 1995 747
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is South Asian Studies and Conflicts research done?

The largest centres of South Asian Studies and Conflicts research in 2022-now are New Delhi (India), Kolkata (India), Bengaluru (India) and Kathmandu (Nepal). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Itanagar, Imphal and Aizawl.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New DelhiIndia 347 works
  2. 2 KolkataIndia 133 works
  3. 3 BengaluruIndia 115 works
  4. 4 KathmanduNepal 114 works
  5. 5 LahorePakistan 94 works
  6. 6 IslamabadPakistan 94 works
  7. 7 GuwahatiIndia 92 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 77 works
  9. 9 MumbaiIndia 77 works
  10. 10 PuneIndia 72 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ItanagarIN · 32.2 works65×
  2. ImphalIN · 65.7 works64×
  3. AizawlIN · 28.5 works60×
  4. DibrugarhIN · 28.9 works53×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See South Asian Studies and Conflicts on the map

Where is the best place to study South Asian Studies and Conflicts?

Among universities, judged by research, Annamalai University, London School of Economics and Political Science and Jamia Millia Islamia 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%30%mean 16.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →London School of Eco…Annamalai UniversityJamia Millia IslamiaJawaharlal Nehru Uni…
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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
1Annamalai UniversityIndia 71.320.5%44.7×42 +571.6%
2London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 68.722.4%10.1×12 +17.9%
3Jamia Millia IslamiaIndia 65.718.0%31.8×39 +51.3%
4Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 65.413.6%93.7×85 +10.9%
5University of KashmirIndia 64.918.4%42.6×38 +59.5%
6University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.025.2%3.2×22 -9.5%
7University of DelhiIndia 61.78.7%33.7×111 +14.1%
8King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 60.319.3%4.5×19 +16.1%
9O. P. Jindal Global UniversityIndia 59.315.8%64.1×27 +5.7%
10Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 59.15.9%26.9×98 +106.7%

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 South Asian Studies and Conflicts, country by country

Is South Asian Studies and Conflicts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are South Asian Studies and 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 South Asian Studies and Conflicts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%South Asian Studies and Conflicts0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of South Asian Studies and 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.

still counting5%10%15%South Asian Studies and Conflicts10.8% 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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