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Basque language and culture studies

Basque language and culture studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 2.9k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on various aspects of Basque nationalism, including the history of ETA, the Basque diaspora, identity, terrorism, language, culture, and gender. It also delves into the literature and history of the Basque people, providing a comprehensive exploration of Basque nationalism and culture.

  • Basque Nationalism
  • ETA
  • Basque Diaspora
  • Identity
  • Terrorism
  • Language
  • Culture
  • History
  • Gender
  • Literature
Research works
2.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
306
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
70% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Basque language and culture studies

Which countries lead Basque language and culture studies research?

By volume, Spain and France publish the most (381 and 50 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 381 works
  2. 2 France 50 works
  3. 3 United States 42 works
  4. 4 Mexico 15 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 14 works
  6. 6 Italy 10 works
  7. 7 Argentina 8 works
  8. 8 Chile 8 works
  9. 9 Germany 7 works
  10. 10 Russia 7 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.

Spain: 70.3%France: 9.2%United States: 7.8%Mexico: 2.7%6 others listed: 9.9%70%largest
Spain381 · 70.3%France50 · 9.2%United States42 · 7.8%Mexico15 · 2.7%6 others listed54 · 9.9%

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

Which institutions lead Basque language and culture studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of the Basque Country publishes the most Basque language and culture studies research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Basque Government.

Who are the leading researchers in Basque language and culture studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Basque language and culture studies include Carmen Navarro and Juan Pablo.

  1. 1 Carmen Navarro Spain 50k citations
  2. 2 Juan Pablo United States 49k 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 Basque language and culture studies?

The most cited paper in Basque language and culture studies is "Linguistic change and diffusion: description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography" (Peter W. TRUDGILL, 1974), with 598 citations. Next come "cultural politics in an age of statistics: numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity" (243) and "The Basque dialect of Lekeitio" (152).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Linguistic change and diffusion: description and explanation in sociolinguistic dialect geography Peter W. TRUDGILL · Language in Society Oct 1974 598
2 cultural politics in an age of statistics: numbers, nations, and the making of Basque identity Jacqueline Urla · American Ethnologist Nov 1993 243
3 The Basque dialect of Lekeitio José Ignacio Hualde, Gorka Elordieta, Arantzazu Elordieta · Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo Open access 3 Feb 1994 152
4 Advances in Dialectometry Martijn Wieling, John A. Nerbonne · Annual Review of Linguistics ReviewOpen access 4 Aug 2014 134
5 Spain: the very model of the modern elite settlement Richard Günther · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 29 Nov 1991 123
All 103 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Basque language and culture studies research done?

The largest centres of Basque language and culture studies research in 2022-now are Leioa (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Pamplona (Spain) and Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leioa, Pamplona and Madrid.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LeioaSpain 167 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 42 works
  3. 3 PamplonaSpain 27 works
  4. 4 Vitoria-GasteizSpain 17 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 12 works
  6. 6 BilbaoSpain 11 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 9 works
  8. 8 SalamancaSpain 9 works
  9. 9 SevilleSpain 9 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeioaES · 167.5 works637×
  2. PamplonaES · 27.1 works101×
  3. MadridES · 42.0 works14×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Basque language and culture studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Basque language and culture studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Basque Country, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) 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%mean 9.71667%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Complute…University of the Ba…Universidad Pública …Universidad de Salam…
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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 the Basque CountrySpain 76.612.4%670.4×168 +6.4%
2Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 52.715.2%36.0×17 +5.3%
3Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA)Spain 45.011.8%331.1×15 +11.5%
4Universidad de SalamancaSpain 40.710.6%49.5×9 +38.5%
5Universidad de DeustoSpain 19.66.8%254.9×9 -2.1%
6Universidad de NavarraSpain 10.41.5%67.1×9 -20.4%

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 Basque language and culture studies, country by country

Is Basque language and culture studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Basque language and culture studies.

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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 Basque language and culture studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0027% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Basque language and culture studies0.0031% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Basque language and culture studies 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%Basque language and culture studies9.6% 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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