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Cinema and Media Studies

Cinema and Media Studies is a research topic within Economics and Econometrics. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the economics, market dynamics, and cultural impact of the film industry, including the influence of movie critics, box office performance, transnational cinema, documentary films, and the success factors for cinematic productions. It delves into the interplay between star power, budgeting, and critical reviews on movie revenues, as well as the implications of cultural globalization on the dominance of American films in foreign markets.

  • Film Industry
  • Box Office
  • Movie Critics
  • Cinematic Success
  • Market Dynamics
  • Transnational Cinema
  • Documentary Film
  • Hollywood
  • Movie Revenues
  • Cultural Globalization
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cinema and Media Studies

Which countries lead Cinema and Media Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.4k and 827 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 827 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 336 works
  4. 4 China 323 works
  5. 5 India 298 works
  6. 6 France 280 works
  7. 7 Australia 272 works
  8. 8 Germany 208 works
  9. 9 Canada 207 works
  10. 10 Spain 167 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: 32.9%United Kingdom: 19.0%Türkiye: 7.7%China: 7.4%6 others listed: 32.9%33%largest
United States1,433 · 32.9%United Kingdom827 · 19.0%Türkiye336 · 7.7%China323 · 7.4%6 others listed1,431 · 32.9%

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

Which institutions lead Cinema and Media Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Cinema and Media Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and King's College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 72 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  3. 3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 25 works
  5. 5 The University of SydneyAustralia 24 works
  6. 6 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 23 works
  7. 7 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 22 works
  8. 8 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 22 works
  10. 10 Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cinema and Media Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cinema and Media Studies include Michel Foucault, Anselm L. Strauss and Paul M. Thompson.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  3. 3 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k citations
  4. 4 Luc Van Gool Switzerland 177k 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 Cinema and Media Studies?

The most cited paper in Cinema and Media Studies is "Do online reviews matter? — An empirical investigation of panel data" (Wenjing Duan, Bin Gu, Andrew B. Whinston, 2008), with 1,703 citations. Next come "Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue" (1,620) and "Understanding Popular Culture" (1,361).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Do online reviews matter? — An empirical investigation of panel data Wenjing Duan, Bin Gu, Andrew B. Whinston · Decision Support Systems Open access 11 Apr 2008 1,703
2 Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue Yong Liu · Journal of Marketing 13 Jun 2006 1,620
3 Understanding Popular Culture John Fiske Book chapter 22 Nov 2006 1,361
4 Word of Mouth for Movies: Its Dynamics and Impact on Box Office Revenue Liu Yong · Journal of Marketing Jul 2006 1,359
5 The Origin of German Tragic Drama Don Callen, Walter W Benjamin · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1978 1,109
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Where is Cinema and Media Studies research done?

The largest centres of Cinema and Media Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Los Angeles (United States), Istanbul (Türkiye) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 180 works
  2. 2 Los AngelesUnited States 109 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 94 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 90 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 85 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 78 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 61 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 49 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 47 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 43 works
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Where is the best place to study Cinema and Media Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Queensland University of Technology, Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Sydney 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
1Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 70.957.8%7.1×13 +4.3%
2Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 67.024.9%14.6×22 +286.2%
3The University of SydneyAustralia 65.721.9%3.8×24 +43.4%
4The University of AdelaideAustralia 61.916.9%9.3×20 +291.3%
5University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 61.725.3%7.4×22 -2.1%
6University of AmsterdamNetherlands 60.813.1%5.9×18 +22.3%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 60.311.5%4.0×25 +83.0%
8Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain 60.228.7%12.2×14 +27.0%
9Christ UniversityIndia 57.928.4%7.9×14 +469.0%
10University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 57.46.5%8.2×22 +33.2%

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 Cinema and Media Studies, country by country

Is Cinema and Media Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Cinema and Media 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 Cinema and Media Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Cinema and Media Studies0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cinema and Media 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%Cinema and Media Studies9.7% 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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