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Academic Freedom and Politics

Academic Freedom and Politics is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 7k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of politics, professional dynamics, and academic freedom within higher education. It delves into topics such as faculty partisanship, political bias in education, student perception of ideological influence, and the ethical considerations of research in academia.

  • Academic Freedom
  • Political Bias
  • Faculty Partisanship
  • Education Research
  • Student Perception
  • Intellectual Diversity
  • Higher Education
  • Social Science
  • Research Ethics
  • University Governance
Research works
7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
719
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Academic Freedom and Politics

Which countries lead Academic Freedom and Politics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (554 and 62 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 554 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 62 works
  3. 3 Canada 52 works
  4. 4 Russia 42 works
  5. 5 Germany 31 works
  6. 6 China 28 works
  7. 7 France 28 works
  8. 8 Australia 23 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 17 works
  10. 10 India 13 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 65.2%United Kingdom: 7.4%Canada: 6.1%Russia: 5.0%6 others listed: 16.4%65%largest
United States554 · 65.2%United Kingdom62 · 7.4%Canada52 · 6.1%Russia42 · 5.0%6 others listed139 · 16.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Academic Freedom and Politics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indiana University publishes the most Academic Freedom and Politics research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and City University of New York.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indiana UniversityUnited States 11 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  3. 3 City University of New YorkUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 University of TorontoCanada 6 works
  6. 6 University of Arkansas at FayettevilleUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 University of VermontUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 Emory UniversityUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Academic Freedom and Politics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Academic Freedom and Politics include Michael E. Porter, Noam Chomsky and David R. Holmes.

  1. 1 Michael E. Porter United States 165k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 David R. Holmes United States 140k citations
  4. 4 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Academic Freedom and Politics?

The most cited paper in Academic Freedom and Politics is "The Chronicle of Higher Education" (Gail A. Herndon, 1977), with 1,580 citations. Next come "The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology" (834) and "The Two-party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science" (782).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Chronicle of Higher Education Gail A. Herndon · Serials Review Apr 1977 1,580
2 The psychology of system justification and the palliative function of ideology John T. Jost, Orsolya Hunyady · European Review of Social Psychology 2003 834
3 The Two-party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science William H. Riker · American Political Science Review Dec 1982 782
4 Explaining intergroup differentiation in an industrial organization Rupert James Brown, Susan Condor, Audrey L. Mathews et al. · Journal of Occupational Psychology Dec 1986 694
5 Democracy's discontent: America in search of a public philosophy Peter deLeon · Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 1997 640
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Academic Freedom and Politics research done?

The largest centres of Academic Freedom and Politics research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), Moscow (Russia) and Los Angeles (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Washington D.C. and New York.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 24 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 18 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 13 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 11 works
  7. 7 AtlantaUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works
  9. 9 BloomingtonUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 23.6 works6.1×
  2. New YorkUS · 25.1 works3.5×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Academic Freedom and Politics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Academic Freedom and Politics?

Among universities, judged by research, Indiana University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Indiana UniversityUnited States 10.05.2%13.2×12 +49.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Academic Freedom and Politics, country by country

Is Academic Freedom and Politics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Academic Freedom and Politics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Academic Freedom and Politics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0045% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Academic Freedom and Politics0.0044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Academic Freedom and Politics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Academic Freedom and Politics10.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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