Atlantic Council

Location: Washington, United States

Founded: 1961

TTA Score: 98.50 points (see how this score was calculated)

Rank: # 4 out of 82 (see full ranking)

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Publications & Citations Timeline

Citations before 2022 are not counted.

Note also that not all outputs are collected (e.g., our database generally focuses on English-language reports that are not in a PDF format), and that data collection may be subject to unintended errors and omissions.

Recent Think Tank Publications

Oct 13, 2025 Behind the scenes of the IMF-World Bank Annual Meetings as leaders adjust to a new normal of uncertainty

Oct 13, 2025 Expect IMF-World Bank meeting debates over China, the US, Ukraine, and more—behind closed doors

Oct 12, 2025 As the trade war resumes, China is keeping one eye on Trump and one on the Supreme Court

Oct 10, 2025 Four questions (and expert answers) about Peru’s presidential impeachment and what’s next

Oct 9, 2025 The imperative for hypersonic strike weapons and counterhypersonic defenses

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

May 23, 2025 Leadership and governance, financing, and coordination and their impact on the operationalization of health interventions in the humanitarian-development nexus in South Sudan PLoS ONE

Apr 27, 2025 Safeguarding global health security amidst a scramble for Africa’s minerals for the clean energy transition Globalization and Health

Mar 17, 2025 Uncovering Salafi jihadist terror activity through advanced technological tools Journal of Policing Intelligence and Counter Terrorism

Aug 21, 2024 From heat wave Zoe to heat wave Vera: a two-year ex post evaluation of the categorization and naming heat wave system ProMeteo in Seville, Spain Research Square (Research Square)

May 28, 2024 Specially Affected States' Push for Collective Countermeasures

Top Research Topics

Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies 24 publications

International Relations and Foreign Policy 20 publications

Global Peace and Security Dynamics 18 publications

European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies 14 publications

Defense, Military, and Policy Studies 13 publications

These data refer only to publications in peer-reviewed journals; the data source is OpenAlex.

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 7,374

Authors (since 2020): 2,555

Citations (since 2022): 636

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 91

Impact Factor (2 years): 2

H-Index: 21

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Peter Dickinson

242

Frederick Kempe

198

Hung Tran

105

Katherine Golden

Brian Whitmore

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

Brookings

2557

CSIS

2537

CFR

2294

CEIP

2216

Wilson Center

1220

Only citations since 2022 are considered. The range of think tanks taken into account is larger than the ones indexed in this platform (see methodical details).

CSIS

2170

CEIP

1588

CFR

810

Brookings

687