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Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity

Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 2.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the cultural and literary intersections of Latin American Jewish studies, with a focus on the works of Jorge Luis Borges, nationalism, ethnicity, colonialism, and the representation of Jewish identity and memory in literature. It delves into the complexities of translation, cultural production, and the impact of Jewish heritage on the Latin American literary landscape.

  • Borges
  • Jewish
  • Literature
  • Translation
  • Cultural Production
  • Nationalism
  • Ethnicity
  • Colonialism
  • Identity
  • Memory
Research works
2.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
282
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity

Which countries lead Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research?

By volume, the United States and Argentina publish the most (92 and 82 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 92 works
  2. 2 Argentina 82 works
  3. 3 Brazil 66 works
  4. 4 Spain 43 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 France 22 works
  7. 7 Mexico 20 works
  8. 8 India 16 works
  9. 9 Russia 13 works
  10. 10 Germany 11 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: 23.5%Argentina: 21.0%Brazil: 17.0%Spain: 10.9%6 others listed: 27.6%23%largest
United States92 · 23.5%Argentina82 · 21.0%Brazil66 · 17.0%Spain43 · 10.9%6 others listed108 · 27.6%

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

Which institutions lead Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Buenos Aires publishes the most Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research, followed by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 16 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 16 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 8 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 8 works
  5. 5 National University of RosarioArgentina 6 works
  6. 6 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 6 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 5 works
  8. 8 National University of Mar del PlataArgentina 5 works
  9. 9 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 5 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity include David Hume and Charles Robert Darwin.

  1. 1 David Hume Australia 107k citations
  2. 2 Charles Robert Darwin Indonesia 87k 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 Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity?

The most cited paper in Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity is "Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction" (Gillian Beer, 1983), with 1,078 citations. Next come "The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire" (805) and "AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE?" (415).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction Gillian Beer · Lincoln (University of Nebraska) Open access 1983 1,078
2 The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire Thomas Richards 1993 805
3 AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE? K. F. Shortridge, Charles H. Stuart-Harris · The Lancet Oct 1982 415
4 Cadherins regulate aggregation of pancreatic β-cells in vivo Ulf Dahl, Anders Mikael Sjödin, Henrik Semb · Development Sep 1996 234
5 THE METABOLISM OF METHYLATED AMINOAZO DYES R. R. Brown, JAMES ALEXANDER MILLER, E. C. Miller · Journal of Biological Chemistry Open access Jul 1954 212
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Where is Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research done?

The largest centres of Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research in 2022-now are Buenos Aires (Argentina), São Paulo (Brazil), Madrid (Spain) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Buenos Aires.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Buenos AiresArgentina 40 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 16 works
  3. 3 MadridSpain 14 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 9 works
  5. 5 Mexico CityMexico 8 works
  6. 6 La PlataArgentina 8 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 7 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  9. 9 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 6 works
  10. 10 Mar del PlataArgentina 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Buenos AiresAR · 40.2 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Universidad de Buenos Aires 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
1Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 45.818.1%89.4×8 +3.1%
2Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 42.57.1%84.5×16 -10.2%

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 Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity, country by country

Is Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0020% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity0.0022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity 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%Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity9.7% 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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