Content of WAO - World Affairs Online
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Subject coverage
- Foreign and security policy
- International organisations
and institutions
- Theory of international relations
- Economic and development cooperation
- Country studies on
politics/economy/society
- Regional studies
- Europe policy,
transatlantic relations
- Foreign cultural policy
- Climate, environment and
energy policy
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Table 1: Distribution of citations by subject area
based on total citations since 1990
(Update: November 2011)
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Table 2: Regional relevance of citations
based on total citations since 1990
(Update: November 2011)
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Resource types
- Journal and book articles (58 %)
- Monographies, papers (34 %)
- Official publications (6 %)
- Periodicals, annual books (2 %)
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Table 3: Resource types
based on total citations since 1990
(Update: November 2011)
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List of periodicals
- List of periodicals from which selection is made (c 1,000 titles, update: October 2011)
download as PDF file
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Languages
- 49 % English
- 26 % German
- 14 % French
- 4 % Russian
- 4 % Spanish
- 4 % Other languages
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Table 4: Distribution of languages
based on total citations since 1990
(Update: November 2011)
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File data
Update: December 31, 2010
- more than 800,000 citations (since 1974)
- yearly increase of between
25,000 and 30,000 citations
- daily updates
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Table 5: Annual increase in citations
(2001 - 2010)
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New: Development aid policy focus in IREON
Inwent – Capacity Building International, the German government organisation to carry out human resource development and worldwide dialogue in the framework of development cooperation, now provides its main literature database LITDOK for research in IREON.
The LITDOK database includes 190,000 bibliographic references to journal articles, books, internet documents and grey literature.
The main focus of this collection is on development cooperation, developing countries and global economic development policy.
LITDOK uses subject terms of the "Thesaurus for economic and social development" for content description.
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