Think Tank Alert

CSIS Center for Strategic and International Studies

Abbreviation: CSIS
Location: Washington, United States United States
Founded: 1962
TTA Score: 111.60 points (see how this score was calculated)
Rank: # 2 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

Sep 10, 2025 States Weekly: September 10, 2025
Sep 9, 2025 The United States, Argentina, and Seizing the Moment for American AI
Sep 9, 2025 What Secretary Rubio’s Visit Reveals About U.S.-Mexico Security Cooperation and the Prospect of Drone Strikes
Sep 9, 2025 New Documents Reveal Next Steps for U.S.-Japan Trade Deal
Sep 9, 2025 Russia’s Massed Strikes: The Strategy of Coercion by Salvo

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

May 1, 2025 Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks
Mar 18, 2025 Governing the impact of emerging technologies: Actors, technologies, and regulation Journal of Strategic Studies
Feb 18, 2025 Elizabeth O’Brien, <i>Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940</i> Social History of Medicine
Feb 13, 2025 Influencing the Influencers Insurgency and terrorism series
Feb 11, 2025 Multi-stage phase transformation pathways in MAX phases Nature Communications

Top Research Topics

International Relations and Foreign Policy 147 publications
147
Nuclear Issues and Defense 93 publications
93
Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East 77 publications
77
Global Peace and Security Dynamics 77 publications
77
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence 56 publications
56
These data refer only to publications in peer-reviewed journals; the data source is OpenAlex.

Think Tank Metrics Overview

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 7,815
Authors (since 2020): 1,426
Citations (since 2022): 899

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 196
Impact Factor (2 years): 3
H-Index: 53
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Most Productive Authors

1
William Alan Reinsch
411
2
Victor Cha
178
3
Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.
174
4
Daniel F. Runde
132
5
Anthony H. Cordesman
128

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

Most Often Cited By This Organization

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2288
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2170
3
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1554
4
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1470
5
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1452

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).

Think Tanks Citing This Organization

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2537
2
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2281
3
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1834
4
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1242
5
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962

Only citations since 2022, and only a limited set of think tanks are considered (see methodical details).