How is the field of Cognitive Warfare actually being built?—and who is shaping it? Mapping the cognitive warfare literature: A strategic analysis

Sara Russo

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What this research does

The study uses a PRISMA-aligned bibliometric and network analysis to examine the research landscape on cognitive warfare and related concepts from 1981 to 2025. It begins from a broader corpus, narrows it through successive screening phases, and then isolates a refined core of publications most conceptually aligned with cognitive warfare. More precisely, the workflow moved from 2,740 screened records, to 1,915 publications for bibliometric analysis, and then to a final core corpus of 289 publications for refined conceptual analysis.