Science diplomacy: A global research field? Findings from a bibliometric analysis of the science diplomacy scholarship of the past twenty years
Together with Bruno Iochins Grisci, Carringtone Kinyanjui, Lise H. Andersen, Annika Ralfs and Alan Kai Hassen, Anna-Lena Rüland (from our member organisation University College London), recently published a bibliometric study of the science diplomacy scholarship in Scientometrics.
In their study, Anna-Lena and her co-authors investigate two questions: First, they examine whether the science diplomacy scholarship is as international in outlook as practitioners have made science diplomacy out to be. Second, they explore whether recent calls to diversify the science diplomacy scholarship have gained traction.
Their study shows that the internationalization of the science diplomacy field—both in terms of author affiliations and geographical area being studied in publications—is only slowly advancing and is currently restricted to a few regions, with the United States and Europe clearly dominating the production of knowledge on science diplomacy. Overall, their findings thus corroborate past claims that the science diplomacy scholarship exhibits North–South dynamics similar to those in other research fields.
Read the full article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-025-05396-x.