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Anthropological Studies and Insights

Anthropological Studies and Insights is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the anthropology of globalization, neoliberal governmentality, and cultural critique. It delves into the spatialities of states, structural violence, and the impact of colonialism on religious life. The papers also discuss the effects of neoliberalism on various cultures and societies, emphasizing the importance of ethnography in understanding these phenomena.

  • Globalization
  • Neoliberalism
  • Governmentality
  • Ethnography
  • Structural Violence
  • Cultural Critique
  • Colonialism
  • Religious Life
  • Spatialities
  • Cultural Anthropology
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Anthropological Studies and Insights

Which countries lead Anthropological Studies and Insights research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (1.1k and 617 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 India 617 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 578 works
  4. 4 Australia 220 works
  5. 5 Brazil 205 works
  6. 6 Canada 202 works
  7. 7 Germany 186 works
  8. 8 South Africa 159 works
  9. 9 France 127 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 95 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: 30.9%India: 17.9%United Kingdom: 16.7%Australia: 6.4%6 others listed: 28.2%31%largest
United States1,069 · 30.9%India617 · 17.9%United Kingdom578 · 16.7%Australia220 · 6.4%6 others listed973 · 28.2%

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

Which institutions lead Anthropological Studies and Insights research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Anthropological Studies and Insights research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Cambridge.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 54 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 46 works
  3. 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 45 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 37 works
  5. 5 University of DelhiIndia 36 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  7. 7 Australian National UniversityAustralia 27 works
  8. 8 Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityIndia 26 works
  9. 9 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 24 works
  10. 10 University of ChicagoUnited States 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Anthropological Studies and Insights?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Anthropological Studies and Insights include Michel Foucault, Paul M. Thompson and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Anthropological Studies and Insights?

The most cited paper in Anthropological Studies and Insights is "Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography" (George E. Marcus, 1995), with 7,717 citations. Next come "Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference" (3,466) and "Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality" (2,670).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography George E. Marcus · Annual Review of Anthropology Oct 1995 7,717
2 Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Akhil Gupta, JAMES G. FERGUSON · Cultural Anthropology Open access Feb 1992 3,466
3 Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality JAMES G. FERGUSON, Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist Nov 2002 2,670
4 The Mindful Body: A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology Nancy Scheper‐Hughes, Margaret M. Lock · Medical Anthropology Quarterly Mar 1987 2,542
5 blurred boundaries: the discourse of corruption, the culture of politics, and the imagined state Akhil Gupta · American Ethnologist May 1995 2,515
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Anthropological Studies and Insights research done?

The largest centres of Anthropological Studies and Insights research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New Delhi (India), Paris (France) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durham.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 144 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 96 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 64 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 59 works
  5. 5 OxfordUnited Kingdom 54 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 53 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 51 works
  8. 8 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 47 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 47 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 41 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DurhamGB · 22.8 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Anthropological Studies and Insights than the world average.

See Anthropological Studies and Insights on the map

Where is the best place to study Anthropological Studies and Insights?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Sheffield and National University of Singapore 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.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 65.612.9%8.1×46 -10.5%
2University of SheffieldUnited Kingdom 63.734.7%4.5×9 +32.5%
3National University of SingaporeSingapore 61.519.5%4.4×21 +43.2%
4Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 60.914.8%15.2×23 +8.2%
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 60.88.8%9.2×45 -22.7%
6London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 60.022.5%21.7×21 -22.7%
7University of TorontoCanada 59.610.2%4.5×37 -6.3%
8University of British ColumbiaCanada 59.426.3%3.8×18 -6.8%
9Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 58.919.6%5.4×16 +15.5%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.416.7%4.4×28 -14.9%

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 Anthropological Studies and Insights, country by country

Is Anthropological Studies and Insights research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Anthropological Studies and Insights.

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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 Anthropological Studies and Insights as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Anthropological Studies and Insights 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

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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