Royal United Services Institute

Abbreviation: RUSI

Location: London, UK

Founded: 1831

TTA Score: 42.80 points (see how this score was calculated)

Rank: # 9 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 Making Sense of Britain’s Digital Targeting Web

Oct 10, 2025 Syria’s First Post-Assad Election: Analysis from Damascus

Oct 9, 2025 The Kremlin can Afford the Luxury of a Second Anti-NATO Front

Oct 8, 2025 The Priorities of a New Franco-German Covenant

Oct 8, 2025 Putin’s Polycrisis

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications

May 13, 2025 Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk Global Governance A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations

May 12, 2025 Security elites in the classroom: intersections between andragogical principles and the learning preferences of global security leaders Studies in the Education of Adults

Jan 12, 2025 Are Mexican Cartels Terrorists? Why Understanding Resilience and Resistance in Mexico Matters Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Aug 22, 2024 Quantitative Analysis of Language Patterns and Discursive Strategies in Online Radicalisation Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

Aug 11, 2024 Assessing Evaluative Practice in Protective Security Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

Top Research Topics

Defense, Military, and Policy Studies 48 publications

Military and Defense Studies 48 publications

Military History and Strategy 48 publications

Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence 43 publications

European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies 34 publications

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

Core Activities

Articles (since 2020): 2,223

Authors (since 2020): 1,051

Citations (since 2022): 199

Academic Metrics

Scholarly Works: 98

Impact Factor (2 years): 2

H-Index: 27

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Jack Watling

Tom Keatinge

Sidharth Kaushal

Emma De Angelis

Matthew Savill

Only articles since 2020 are considered.

CSIS

827

Atlantic Council

605

CEIP

536

RAND

499

IISS

464

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).

Atlantic Council

657

CSIS

574

CEIP

399