Security Studies

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The 860 papers published in Security Studies in the last decades have received a total of 15.2k indexed citations. Papers published in Security Studies usually cover Political Science and International Relations (569 papers), Sociology and Political Science (359 papers) and Economics and Econometrics (118 papers) specifically the topics of International Relations and Foreign Policy (334 papers), Political Conflict and Governance (140 papers) and Global Peace and Security Dynamics (124 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Security Studies are Jon R. Lindsay, Monica Duffy Toft, Randall L. Schweller, Jonathan Kirshner, Ron E. Hassner, Risa Brooks, Kenneth N. Waltz, Marc Trachtenberg, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro and Shiping Tang.

In The Last Decade

Security Studies

721 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Countries where authors publish in Security Studies

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Security Studies. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Security Studies with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Security Studies more than expected).

Fields of papers published in Security Studies

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Security Studies. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Security Studies.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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