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Asian American and Pacific Histories

Asian American and Pacific Histories is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 9.7k research works in it since 1950. 14.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of Asian American identity, transnational experiences, race, colonialism, and empire, with a focus on the Pacific region. It delves into the historical, literary, and cultural aspects of Asian American studies within a transnational context.

  • Asian American
  • Transnational
  • Race
  • Colonialism
  • Empire
  • Pacific
  • Identity
  • Literature
  • History
  • Immigration
Research works
9.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
14.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+12%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Asian American and Pacific Histories research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (808 and 106 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 808 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 106 works
  3. 3 Canada 73 works
  4. 4 Australia 62 works
  5. 5 China 58 works
  6. 6 Japan 51 works
  7. 7 France 31 works
  8. 8 Germany 30 works
  9. 9 India 28 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 19 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: 63.8%United Kingdom: 8.3%Canada: 5.8%Australia: 4.9%6 others listed: 17.2%64%largest
United States808 · 63.8%United Kingdom106 · 8.3%Canada73 · 5.8%Australia62 · 4.9%6 others listed217 · 17.2%

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

Which institutions lead Asian American and Pacific Histories research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa publishes the most Asian American and Pacific Histories research, followed by Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and University of California, Berkeley.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesJapan 15 works
  3. 3 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 13 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 9 works
  6. 6 Yale UniversityUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 8 works
  8. 8 University of ChicagoUnited States 8 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 7 works
  10. 10 University of British ColumbiaCanada 7 works

Where is Asian American and Pacific Histories research done?

The largest centres of Asian American and Pacific Histories research in 2022–2025 are Honolulu (United States), New York (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Tokyo (Japan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Honolulu and Los Angeles.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Honolulu United States 38 works
  2. 2 New York United States 37 works
  3. 3 Los Angeles United States 30 works
  4. 4 Tokyo Japan 25 works
  5. 5 London United Kingdom 23 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C. United States 20 works
  7. 7 Melbourne Australia 16 works
  8. 8 Chicago United States 16 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 15 works
  10. 10 Berkeley United States 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HonoluluUS · 37.8 works73×
  2. Los AngelesUS · 30.1 works6.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Asian American and Pacific Histories than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Asian American and Pacific Histories?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, University of California, Berkeley and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 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.

0%10%20%30%mean 12.48%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: 26, 22.1%University of California, Berkeley: 13, 2.5%Tokyo University of Foreign Studies: 15, 4.4%University of California, Los Angeles: 9, 27.5%Yale University: 9, 5.9%University of Califo…University of Hawaiʻ…Tokyo University of …University of Califo…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States 78.522.1%86.5×26 +5.7%
2 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 55.62.5%10.6×13 +67.3%
3 Tokyo University of Foreign StudiesJapan 43.64.4%373.4×15 —
4 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 42.027.5%6.3×9 +16.0%
5 Yale UniversityUnited States 14.95.9%5.9×9 +19.6%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Asian American and Pacific Histories research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 12% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Asian American and Pacific Histories.

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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.

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.