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American and British Literature Analysis

American and British Literature Analysis is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 7.3k 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 focuses on the literary works, cultural impact, and interdisciplinary analysis of Ernest Hemingway, exploring themes such as masculinity, identity, modernism, gender, race, psychology, ecology, and imperialism.

  • Hemingway
  • literature
  • masculinity
  • identity
  • modernism
  • gender
  • race
  • psychology
  • ecology
  • imperialism
Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
755
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
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
American and British Literature Analysis

Which countries lead American and British Literature Analysis research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (339 and 93 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 339 works
  2. 2 China 93 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 84 works
  4. 4 India 71 works
  5. 5 France 52 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 51 works
  7. 7 Russia 30 works
  8. 8 Canada 27 works
  9. 9 Iraq 25 works
  10. 10 Germany 23 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: 42.6%China: 11.7%United Kingdom: 10.6%India: 8.9%6 others listed: 26.3%43%largest
United States339 · 42.6%China93 · 11.7%United Kingdom84 · 10.6%India71 · 8.9%6 others listed209 · 26.3%

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

Which institutions lead American and British Literature Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most American and British Literature Analysis research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Tribhuvan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 9 works
  3. 3 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 7 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 6 works
  5. 5 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 6 works
  6. 6 City University of New YorkUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 University of VictoriaCanada 5 works
  9. 9 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 Bukhara State UniversityUzbekistan 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in American and British Literature Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on American and British Literature Analysis include Gordon Brent Mills, James Thomas and Peter John Barnes.

  1. 1 Gordon Brent Mills United States 265k citations
  2. 2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  3. 3 Peter John Barnes United Kingdom 225k citations
  4. 4 Michael Snyder United States 224k 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 American and British Literature Analysis?

The most cited paper in American and British Literature Analysis is "To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature." (David W. Blight, Eric J. Sundquist, 1994), with 484 citations. Next come "Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America." (449) and "Husbands and wives" (379).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. David W. Blight, Eric J. Sundquist · Journal of American History Mar 1994 484
2 Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America. Nina Baym, Richard H. Brodhead · American Literature Mar 1994 449
3 Husbands and wives Scott Johnson · Contemporary Family Therapy Dec 1993 379
4 Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks Mark Warschauer, Jim Cummins, Dennis Sayers · TESOL Quarterly 1996 248
5 THE AUSTRALOPITHECINE FACE Yoel Rak · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1983 247
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Where is American and British Literature Analysis research done?

The largest centres of American and British Literature Analysis research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Los Angeles (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 17 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 17 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 12 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 10 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 8 works
  8. 8 SemarangIndonesia 8 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 KathmanduNepal 8 works
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Is American and British Literature Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are American and British Literature Analysis.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American and British Literature Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0053% in 2024.

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Fractional works of American and British Literature Analysis 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.

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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

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