Council on Foreign Relations

Abbreviation: CFR

Location: New York, United States

Founded: 1921

TTA Score: 102.30 points (see how this score was calculated)

Rank: # 3 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 16, 2025 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Christopher Waller

Oct 10, 2025 China, the United States, and the AI Race

Oct 10, 2025 A Guide to Trump’s Twenty-Point Gaza Peace Plan

Oct 10, 2025 President Boluarte Resigns, but Peru’s Crisis Runs Deeper

Oct 10, 2025 President Boluarte Impeached, but Peru’s Crisis Runs Deeper

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

May 1, 2025 Central bank capitalism: monetary policy in times of crisis International Affairs

Mar 27, 2025 An ‘Americas First’ foreign policy includes global health The Lancet Regional Health - Americas

Feb 3, 2025 Eine wacklige Konstruktion bis zur NATO: die bilateralen Sicherheitsabkommen der Ukraine Ukraine-Analysen

Jan 23, 2025 When the World Closed Its Doors Oxford University Press eBooks

Jan 8, 2025 The Role of Importation in Remediating U.S. Generic Drug Shortages New England Journal of Medicine

Top Research Topics

International Relations and Foreign Policy 61 publications

Global Peace and Security Dynamics 56 publications

Global trade and economics 34 publications

Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies 34 publications

Eastern European Communism and Reforms 30 publications

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

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 5,053

Authors (since 2020): 2,127

Citations (since 2022): 679

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 131

Impact Factor (2 years): 7

H-Index: 62

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James M. Lindsay

454

Michelle Gavin

255

John Campbell

207

Robert McMahon

189

Joshua Kurlantzick

175

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

CSIS

1834

Brookings

1660

CEIP

1235

Atlantic Council

810

PIIE

686

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).

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1857

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