The Institute for Research on World-Systems
Parent: UC Riverside
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for June through September, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8p0176zr | On the Life Cycle of Empires | 2,940 | 327 | 2,613 | 11.1% |
| 9jj9j6z7 | Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | 2,570 | 938 | 1,632 | 36.5% |
| 6qp8x28p | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability | 2,485 | 661 | 1,824 | 26.6% |
| 82s3p5hj | Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History | 2,045 | 215 | 1,830 | 10.5% |
| 8r85g67d | Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On | 1,479 | 115 | 1,364 | 7.8% |
| 8cs3q9xt | A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023) | 1,191 | 215 | 976 | 18.1% |
| 3mw3d3r7 | CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises | 1,070 | 499 | 571 | 46.6% |
| 5mv6v0r1 | A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat | 970 | 256 | 714 | 26.4% |
| 9qx38718 | Seshat: The Global History Databank | 907 | 201 | 706 | 22.2% |
| 62c908fk | Seshat: Global History Databank Publishes First Set of Historical Data | 815 | 85 | 730 | 10.4% |
| 4t32q1mj | Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia | 812 | 454 | 358 | 55.9% |
| 8jr9v920 | The Evolution of War | 810 | 112 | 698 | 13.8% |
| 5j8740dz | The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory | 716 | 168 | 548 | 23.5% |
| 3861g21r | A Dynamic Analysis of American Socio-Political History. A Review of Ages of Discord: A Structural Demographic Analysis of American History by Peter Turchin (Beresta Books, 2016) | 706 | 119 | 587 | 16.9% |
| 58z1j452 | A Mathematical Model of Civilizational Dynamics: Quantifying Toynbee’s Challenge–Response Theory with Newtonian Mechanics | 656 | 280 | 376 | 42.7% |
| 3wc3p3hf | Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions | 644 | 227 | 417 | 35.2% |
| 77b447bx | The Trajectory of the United States in the World-System: A Quantitative Reflection | 618 | 54 | 564 | 8.7% |
| 981121t8 | Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems | 616 | 112 | 504 | 18.2% |
| 9v71n5h4 | A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken | 569 | 268 | 301 | 47.1% |
| 1sj9n878 | Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis | 563 | 91 | 472 | 16.2% |
| 8qq4w9q5 | Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare | 537 | 193 | 344 | 35.9% |
| 0415c0pj | Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire | 522 | 72 | 450 | 13.8% |
| 2rf8c7zk | Explaining British Political Stability After 1832 | 497 | 75 | 422 | 15.1% |
| 7kp25961 | Toward a New Universal History? | 491 | 325 | 166 | 66.2% |
| 79t737gt | A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia | 479 | 107 | 372 | 22.3% |
| 0jd753h6 | The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States | 474 | 90 | 384 | 19.0% |
| 1ks0g7dr | Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History | 474 | 59 | 415 | 12.4% |
| 97p470sx | Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960? | 467 | 82 | 385 | 17.6% |
| 0g05k07v | A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience | 462 | 173 | 289 | 37.4% |
| 8v75n1t9 | New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman | 457 | 57 | 400 | 12.5% |
| 72g2v469 | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis | 448 | 102 | 346 | 22.8% |
| 2cz4q2jq | The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage | 447 | 152 | 295 | 34.0% |
| 1xt9k875 | Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting | 410 | 209 | 201 | 51.0% |
| 6n09f7gr | For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight | 407 | 72 | 335 | 17.7% |
| 1tj057t3 | Peter Turchin’s The Great Holocene Transformation: A Review Symposium | 402 | 124 | 278 | 30.8% |
| 230872k1 | Application of Mathematical Models to English Secular Cycles | 399 | 86 | 313 | 21.6% |
| 3rt8w616 | Grain Yields and the Causes of the Russian Revolution | 388 | 61 | 327 | 15.7% |
| 577293kd | The West and the Rest: The Science of the Great Divergence | 385 | 77 | 308 | 20.0% |
| 5536t55r | Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies | 384 | 111 | 273 | 28.9% |
| 20p8h7j2 | Growth of human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire in 1897-1913: the role of local self-government bodies (zemstva) financing | 373 | 71 | 302 | 19.0% |
| 8bm04882 | Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | 365 | 62 | 303 | 17.0% |
| 3tk971d2 | Complexity in Big History | 353 | 51 | 302 | 14.4% |
| 2v8119hf | A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution | 350 | 86 | 264 | 24.6% |
| 01m702z1 | The Computational Power of a Human Society: a New Model of Social Evolution | 348 | 99 | 249 | 28.4% |
| 74j910z1 | Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes | 345 | 93 | 252 | 27.0% |
| 1144d4t7 | The Origins of Western Superiority: A comment on Modes of Meta-History and Duchesne’s Indo-Europeans Article | 339 | 125 | 214 | 36.9% |
| 6440s413 | Cliodynamics and State Origins Theory | 334 | 120 | 214 | 35.9% |
| 7wn9b6mn | War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy | 328 | 150 | 178 | 45.7% |
| 43w3q5kp | Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum | 325 | 142 | 183 | 43.7% |
| 3062j4rm | A Single Historical Continuum | 318 | 82 | 236 | 25.8% |
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