Top institutions for Strategic, Defence & Security Studies

Which institutions have the most top-cited scientists in Strategic, Defence & Security Studies?

674 researchers whose main subfield is Strategic, Defence & Security Studies are in the 2026 list of top-cited scientists, the annual ranking often called the Stanford–Elsevier top 2% scientists list. University College London has the most (8, 1.2%), followed by Texas A&M University (8) and Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet (8). A row opens its scientists in the subfield in the table of all authors.

#InstitutionCountryListed authorsTop 100kHighest-ranked author
1University College London United Kingdom83Kelman, Ilan #3,716
2Texas A&M University United States83Khan, Faisal I. #4,933
3Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet Norway80Utne, Ingrid Bouwer #104,400
4Politecnico di Milano Italy73Zio, Enrico E. #704
5University of Canterbury New Zealand72Bradley, Brendon A. #11,658
6Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Italy72Iervolino, Iunio #20,708
7Uppsala Universitet Sweden73Svensson, Isak #88,921
8International Peace Research Institute, Oslo Norway63Buhaug, Halvard #15,636
9Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States64Fravel, M. Taylor #51,266
10Istituto Di Ricerca Per La Protezione Idrogeologica, Perugia Italy62Reichenbach, Paola #55,696
11Tufts University United States62Toft, Monica Duffy #64,153
12National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) Greece51Vamvatsikos, Dimitrios I. #15,110
13University of Oxford United Kingdom52Betts, Alexander #22,209
14College of Engineering United States43Lindell, Michael K. #4,829
15Beijing Normal University China41Shi, Peijun #10,021
16Tohoku University Japan41Alexander, David E. #16,668
17University of Essex United Kingdom42Gleditsch, Kristian Skrede #22,644
18University of Auckland New Zealand42Gaillard, J. C. #22,676
19Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Instituut voor Milieuvraagstukken Netherlands43Botzen, W. J.Wouter #25,720
20Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia Italy42Calvi, Gian Michele #26,940
21University of Alberta Canada41Fingas, Merv F. #32,531
22University of Maryland, College Park United States41Cunningham, Kathleen Gallagher #45,727
23Tsinghua University China41Li, Yan Fu #54,708
24BOKU University Austria41Fuchs, Sven #69,256
25University of Waterloo Canada41Henstra, Daniel #86,384
26The Ohio State University United States40Quarantelli, Enrico L. #133,028
27Universitetet i Stavanger Norway32Aven, Terje #3,840
28Universität Stuttgart Germany32Renn, O. #5,084
29Imperial College London United Kingdom32Bommer, Julian J. #13,521
30Dalhousie University Canada32Amyotte, Paul R. #17,953
31University of Michigan, Ann Arbor United States31Guikema, Seth David #33,227
32University of Strathclyde United Kingdom31Douglas, John #40,350
33Arizona State University United States32Helton, Jon C. #43,890
34UCLA Samueli School of Engineering United States31Stewart, Jonathan P. #50,624
35USC Viterbi School of Engineering United States31Trifunac, Mihailo D. #59,355
36Georgetown University United States31Zhukov, Yuri M. #60,344
37Università degli Studi della Basilicata Italy31Cardone, Donatello #61,863
38Universität Potsdam Germany32Thieken, Annegret H. #71,903
39Università degli Studi di Pavia Italy31Penna, Andrea #72,187
40Delft University of Technology Netherlands32Yang, Ming #73,717
41Middle East Technical University (METU) Türkiye31Alareeni, Bahaaeddin Ahmed #83,840
42European Commission Joint Research Centre Belgium31Tarantola, Stefano #91,481
43The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill United States30Snyder, Glenn H. #101,288
44USDA ARS Eastern Regional Research Center United States30Smith, James L. #151,604
45University of Nottingham United Kingdom30Warburton, Geoffrey B. #156,396
46King's College London United Kingdom30Neumann, Peter R. #194,640