{"title":"Growth, diversification, and disconnection: an analysis of 70 years of intelligence scholarship (1950-2020)","authors":"Stephen Coulthart, Abebe Rorissa","doi":"10.1080/02684527.2023.2219534","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Intelligence studies scholarship is growing exponentially but is siloed in disciplinary clusters. After reviewing a citation dataset of nearly 6,000 articles on intelligence, we found that article-based scholarship on intelligence is growing at an exponential rate – the last ten years (2010–2020) saw more knowledge production in scholarship than the previous sixty years combined (1950–2010). The topics under investigation have diversified into three major areas: the study of intelligence services, the ‘how to’ of intelligence practice, and the impact of intelligence on society. Our analyses of topics and core co-authorship networks show productive but disconnected islands between disciplines. We argue a shift towards more interdisciplinary research could narrow these gaps and make intelligence scholarship more impactful.","PeriodicalId":47048,"journal":{"name":"Intelligence and National Security","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Intelligence and National Security","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2023.2219534","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Intelligence studies scholarship is growing exponentially but is siloed in disciplinary clusters. After reviewing a citation dataset of nearly 6,000 articles on intelligence, we found that article-based scholarship on intelligence is growing at an exponential rate – the last ten years (2010–2020) saw more knowledge production in scholarship than the previous sixty years combined (1950–2010). The topics under investigation have diversified into three major areas: the study of intelligence services, the ‘how to’ of intelligence practice, and the impact of intelligence on society. Our analyses of topics and core co-authorship networks show productive but disconnected islands between disciplines. We argue a shift towards more interdisciplinary research could narrow these gaps and make intelligence scholarship more impactful.
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Intelligence has never played a more prominent role in international politics than it does now in the early years of the twenty-first century. National intelligence services are larger than ever, and they are more transparent in their activities in the policy making of democratic nations. Intelligence and National Security is widely regarded as the world''s leading scholarly journal focused on the role of intelligence and secretive agencies in international relations. It examines this aspect of national security from a variety of perspectives and academic disciplines, with insightful articles research and written by leading experts based around the globe. Among the topics covered in the journal are: • the historical development of intelligence agencies • representations of intelligence in popular culture • public understandings and expectations related to intelligence • intelligence and ethics • intelligence collection and analysis • covert action and counterintelligence • privacy and intelligence accountability • the outsourcing of intelligence operations • the role of politics in intelligence activities • international intelligence cooperation and burden-sharing • the relationships among intelligence agencies, military organizations, and civilian policy departments. Authors for Intelligence and National Security come from a range of disciplines, including international affairs, history, sociology, political science, law, anthropology, philosophy, medicine, statistics, psychology, bio-sciences, and mathematics. These perspectives are regularly augmented by research submitted from current and former intelligence practitioners in several different nations. Each issue features a rich menu of articles about the uses (and occasional misuses) of intelligence, supplemented from time to time with special forums on current intelligence issues and interviews with leading intelligence officials.
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