Phillips, Brian J (2023) How did 9/11 affect terrorism research? Examining articles and authors, 1970-2019. Terrorism and Political Violence, 35 (2). pp. 409-432. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1935889
Phillips, Brian J (2023) How did 9/11 affect terrorism research? Examining articles and authors, 1970-2019. Terrorism and Political Violence, 35 (2). pp. 409-432. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1935889
Phillips, Brian J (2023) How did 9/11 affect terrorism research? Examining articles and authors, 1970-2019. Terrorism and Political Violence, 35 (2). pp. 409-432. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2021.1935889
Abstract
Terrorism research increased markedly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 (9/11). How has research on this subject changed in the past 20 years? I examine data on more than 6,000 academic articles on terrorism between 1970 and 2019, and the more than 1,500 authors of multiple articles. This information comes from every article in the Web of Science database with “terrorism” or “terrorist” in the title. Several primary findings emerge. (1) The volume of terrorism research surged to record highs after 9/11, and has not decreased since. (2) Psychologists became the most numerous terrorism researchers after 9/11, displacing political scientists for about 10 years. Research on health or medical aspects of terrorism jumped after 9/11. (3) The proportion of female scholars increased substantially after 9/11, outpacing the rise in academia generally. This is in part because scholars new to the field were often from disciplines with relatively high percentages of women, such as psychology. (4) Terrorism scholars were mostly based in North America or Western Europe before 9/11, but the number of countries with scholars publishing terrorism research expanded considerably after 2001. Overall, terrorism research has developed in many ways over the decades, but 9/11 led to fundamental changes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | Source info: Terrorism and Political Violence, Forthcoming |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | gender; meta-analysis; research; terrorism |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2021 20:41 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 20:50 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/30680 |
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