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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. 14.4% 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%
3.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
14.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+25%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Cinema and Media Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 779 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 779 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 309 works
  4. 4 France 266 works
  5. 5 Australia 258 works
  6. 6 India 257 works
  7. 7 China 252 works
  8. 8 Germany 197 works
  9. 9 Canada 196 works
  10. 10 Spain 146 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: 33.1%United Kingdom: 19.6%Türkiye: 7.8%France: 6.7%6 others listed: 32.9%33%largest
United States1,316 · 33.1%United Kingdom779 · 19.6%Türkiye309 · 7.8%France266 · 6.7%6 others listed1,307 · 32.9%

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

Which institutions lead Cinema and Media Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Film Independent publishes the most Cinema and Media Studies research, followed by King's College London and University of Cambridge.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 65 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  3. 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 24 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 23 works
  5. 5 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  6. 6 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 22 works
  7. 7 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 21 works
  8. 8 Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 21 works
  9. 9 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 21 works
  10. 10 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 20 works

Where is Cinema and Media Studies research done?

The largest centres of Cinema and Media Studies research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Los Angeles (United States), Istanbul (Türkiye) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leicester.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 170 works
  2. 2 Los Angeles United States 99 works
  3. 3 Istanbul Türkiye 87 works
  4. 4 New York United States 82 works
  5. 5 Paris France 81 works
  6. 6 Melbourne Australia 75 works
  7. 7 Beijing China 55 works
  8. 8 Sydney Australia 47 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 45 works
  10. 10 Ankara Türkiye 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeicesterGB · 24.8 works9.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cinema and Media Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cinema and Media Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, RMIT University and Hong Kong Baptist 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%20%40%mean 22.33%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: 13, 24.6%RMIT University: 15, 26.6%Hong Kong Baptist University: 8, 22.3%Universitat Pompeu Fabra: 10, 27.8%Queensland University of Technology: 12, 34.8%University of Southampton: 22, 10.1%University of Leeds: 20, 28.4%Communication University of China: 12, 16.4%Swinburne University of Technology: 21, 19.6%King's College London: 26, 12.7%Universitat Pompeu F…RMIT UniversityUniversidad Carlos I…Hong Kong Baptist Un…
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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 Universidad Carlos III de MadridSpain 70.624.6%10.9×13 +330.3%
2 RMIT UniversityAustralia 66.326.6%7.8×15 +113.9%
3 Hong Kong Baptist UniversityHong Kong 64.422.3%8.2×8 +212.5%
4 Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain 63.827.8%11.4×10 +83.0%
5 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 63.634.8%6.6×12 +85.1%
6 University of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom 61.010.1%8.7×22 +209.7%
7 University of LeedsUnited Kingdom 60.428.4%7.2×20 +20.9%
8 Communication University of ChinaChina 59.416.4%21.5×12 +272.0%
9 Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 59.319.6%14.6×21 +4.7%
10 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 58.312.7%6.5×26 +232.0%

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 Cinema and Media Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 25% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.