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Central European Literary Studies

Central European Literary Studies is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1959. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics including anthropology, development, social change, memory studies, literature, migration, education, national identity, historiography, and cultural heritage. The papers explore the intersection of these areas and their impact on contemporary societies.

  • Anthropology
  • Development
  • Social Change
  • Memory Studies
  • Literature
  • Migration
  • Education
  • National Identity
  • Historiography
  • Cultural Heritage
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
87% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Central European Literary Studies

Which countries lead Central European Literary Studies research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (2.7k and 111 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 2.7k works
  2. 2 United States 111 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 94 works
  4. 4 Czechia 66 works
  5. 5 Germany 34 works
  6. 6 Russia 30 works
  7. 7 Lithuania 27 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 21 works
  9. 9 France 14 works
  10. 10 Italy 12 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.

Poland: 86.7%United States: 3.6%Ukraine: 3.0%Czechia: 2.1%6 others listed: 4.5%87%largest
Poland2,677 · 86.7%United States111 · 3.6%Ukraine94 · 3.0%Czechia66 · 2.1%6 others listed139 · 4.5%

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

Which institutions lead Central European Literary Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Central European Literary Studies research, followed by University of Warsaw and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 285 works
  2. 2 University of WarsawPoland 245 works
  3. 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 241 works
  4. 4 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 215 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 146 works
  6. 6 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 108 works
  7. 7 University of WrocławPoland 102 works
  8. 8 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 102 works
  9. 9 University of GdańskPoland 95 works
  10. 10 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 84 works

Who are the leading researchers in Central European Literary Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Central European Literary Studies include Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k 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 Central European Literary Studies?

The most cited paper in Central European Literary Studies is "Symbolic universes between present and future of Europe. First results of the map of European societies' cultural milieu" (Sergio Salvatore et al., 2018), with 105 citations. Next come "The psychology of group identification and the power of ethnic nationalism." (65) and "Towards critical toponymies" (64).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Symbolic universes between present and future of Europe. First results of the map of European societies' cultural milieu Sergio Salvatore et al. · PLoS ONE Open access 3 Jan 2018 105
2 The psychology of group identification and the power of ethnic nationalism. Clark R. McCauley · American Psychological Association eBooks Book chapter 2001 65
3 Towards critical toponymies Jani Vuolteenaho, Lawrence D. Berg 2 Mar 2017 64
4 Typology of Poland's current landscapes Tadeusz Chmielewski, Urszula Myga-Piątek, Jerzy Solon · Przegląd Geograficzny Open access 2015 60
5 Using history in the streetscape to affirm geopolitics of memory Danielle Drozdzewski · Political Geography Aug 2014 59
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Central European Literary Studies research done?

The largest centres of Central European Literary Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Katowice, Bydgoszcz and Krakow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 608 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 484 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 261 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 205 works
  5. 5 KatowicePoland 178 works
  6. 6 ŁódźPoland 163 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 115 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 106 works
  9. 9 ToruńPoland 72 works
  10. 10 RzeszówPoland 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KatowicePL · 178.2 works108×
  2. BydgoszczPL · 51.0 works106×
  3. KrakowPL · 483.5 works96×
  4. ToruńPL · 71.7 works92×
  5. Zielona GóraPL · 21.8 works91×
  6. LublinPL · 204.7 works89×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Central European Literary Studies than the world average.

See Central European Literary Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Central European Literary Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Łódź, University of Silesia in Katowice and Jagiellonian University 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 12.06%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ŁódźUniversity of Silesi…University of WarsawJagiellonian Univers…
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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 ŁódźPoland 68.212.3%189.5×146 +2.9%
2University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 65.510.7%192.6×108 +18.2%
3Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 65.49.3%157.7×285 +0.6%
4University of WarsawPoland 63.79.4%176.2×245 -19.2%
5Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 59.69.9%219.5×241 -23.0%
6Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 56.510.2%194.5×102 -29.2%
7Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 55.422.5%48.8×8 -21.7%
8University of WrocławPoland 55.311.3%183.3×102 -39.5%
9University of RzeszówPoland 52.012.3%123.7×52 -11.6%
10University of BiałystokPoland 51.512.7%205.9×48 -32.5%

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 Central European Literary Studies, country by country

Is Central European Literary Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Central European Literary Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Central European Literary Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Central European Literary 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%Central European Literary Studies9.5% 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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