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Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Communism, Protests, Social Movements is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 explores the global social movements, transnational activism, and countercultural phenomena of the 1960s and 1970s. It delves into topics such as decolonization, protest, solidarity, and internationalism, reflecting the interconnected nature of social and political movements during this period.

  • 1960s
  • global
  • social movements
  • transnational activism
  • counterculture
  • decolonization
  • protest
  • solidarity
  • youth
  • internationalism
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
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
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Communism, Protests, Social Movements

Which countries lead Communism, Protests, Social Movements research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (555 and 380 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 555 works
  2. 2 Germany 380 works
  3. 3 France 347 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 243 works
  5. 5 Italy 86 works
  6. 6 Canada 78 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 65 works
  8. 8 Russia 65 works
  9. 9 China 58 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 43 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: 28.9%Germany: 19.8%France: 18.1%United Kingdom: 12.7%6 others listed: 20.6%29%largest
United States555 · 28.9%Germany380 · 19.8%France347 · 18.1%United Kingdom243 · 12.7%6 others listed395 · 20.6%

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

Which institutions lead Communism, Protests, Social Movements research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Communism, Protests, Social Movements research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 92 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 22 works
  3. 3 Institut d'Etudes Politiques de ParisFrance 22 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 21 works
  5. 5 Leibniz AssociationGermany 19 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  7. 7 Université de LorraineFrance 17 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 13 works
  9. 9 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 13 works
  10. 10 Universität HamburgGermany 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Communism, Protests, Social Movements?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Communism, Protests, Social Movements include Pierre Bourdıeu, Wolfgang K. Huber and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Daron Acemoğlu United States 164k citations
  5. 5 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Communism, Protests, Social Movements?

The most cited paper in Communism, Protests, Social Movements is "The Logic of Violence in Civil War" (Stathis N. Kalyvas, 2006), with 2,430 citations. Next come "Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory and Research" (1,421) and "Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes – toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements" (807).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Logic of Violence in Civil War Stathis N. Kalyvas · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter May 2006 2,430
2 Emotions and Social Movements: Twenty Years of Theory and Research James M. Jasper · Annual Review of Sociology ReviewOpen access Mar 2011 1,421
3 Introduction: Opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes – toward a synthetic, comparative perspective on social movements Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 26 Jan 1996 807
4 Is extreme right‐wing populism contagious? Explaining the emergence of a new party family Jens Rydgren · European Journal of Political Research May 2005 723
5 Ideas do not float freely: transnational coalitions, domestic structures, and the end of the cold war Thomas Risse · International Organization 1994 619
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Where is Communism, Protests, Social Movements research done?

The largest centres of Communism, Protests, Social Movements research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Berlin (Germany), London (United Kingdom) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 159 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 59 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 37 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 35 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 26 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 24 works
  8. 8 AmsterdamNetherlands 23 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 22 works
  10. 10 HamburgGermany 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Communism, Protests, Social Movements?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, Utrecht University and Freie Universität Berlin 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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 82.418.2%5.8×18 +34.4%
2Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 71.018.7%6.1×9 +172.8%
3Freie Universität BerlinGermany 68.85.7%23.6×21 +62.4%
4University of ViennaAustria 64.320.3%11.4×12 -10.8%
5Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 64.216.0%6.4×12 +52.8%
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.35.6%5.3×14 +43.0%
7Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 53.67.1%17.4×13 +4.3%
8King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 53.215.1%6.2×11 -6.5%
9University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 53.024.2%8.7×8 -19.1%
10Université de LorraineFrance 52.02.0%21.3×17 +79.4%

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 Communism, Protests, Social Movements, country by country

Is Communism, Protests, Social Movements research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% 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 Communism, Protests, Social Movements as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Communism, Protests, Social Movements0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Communism, Protests, Social Movements 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.

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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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