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Comparative and World Literature

Comparative and World Literature is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 2.4k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interconnectedness of world literature, cultural exchange, and globalization. It delves into topics such as cosmopolitanism, global citizenship, translingual imagination, and the impact of identity and ethics on literary works. The papers also discuss the evolution of literary historiography and the role of comparative literature in understanding diverse cultural narratives.

  • World Literature
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Global Citizenship
  • Translingual Imagination
  • Literary Historiography
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Ethics
  • Identity
  • Globalization
  • Comparative Literature
Research works
2.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
241
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+130%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Romania
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Comparative and World Literature

Which countries lead Comparative and World Literature research?

By volume, Romania and the United States publish the most (202 and 96 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Romania 202 works
  2. 2 United States 96 works
  3. 3 India 78 works
  4. 4 China 76 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 40 works
  6. 6 Italy 28 works
  7. 7 France 27 works
  8. 8 Moldova 26 works
  9. 9 Hungary 20 works
  10. 10 Spain 18 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.

Romania: 33.1%United States: 15.6%India: 12.7%China: 12.4%6 others listed: 26.1%33%largest
Romania202 · 33.1%United States96 · 15.6%India78 · 12.7%China76 · 12.4%6 others listed160 · 26.1%

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

Which institutions lead Comparative and World Literature research?

By volume in 2022-now, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati publishes the most Comparative and World Literature research, followed by Babeș-Bolyai University and Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 "Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania 27 works
  2. 2 Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 26 works
  3. 3 Lucian Blaga University of SibiuRomania 19 works
  4. 4 University of BucharestRomania 17 works
  5. 5 Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 16 works
  6. 6 Romanian AcademyRomania 11 works
  7. 7 Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 11 works
  8. 8 Moldova State UniversityMoldova 11 works
  9. 9 Hungarian Academy of SciencesHungary 10 works
  10. 10 Ştefan cel Mare University of SuceavaRomania 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Comparative and World Literature?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Comparative and World Literature include Liqun Zhang.

  1. 1 Liqun Zhang China 82k 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 Comparative and World Literature?

The most cited paper in Comparative and World Literature is "Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism" (Martha C. Nussbaum, 2011), with 458 citations. Next come "Transmodernity and Interculturality: An Interpretation from the Perspective of Philosophy of Liberation" (197) and "How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)?" (132).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Perfectionist Liberalism and Political Liberalism Martha C. Nussbaum · Philosophy &amp Public Affairs 2011 458
2 Transmodernity and Interculturality: An Interpretation from the Perspective of Philosophy of Liberation Enrique D. Dussel · TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World Open access 27 Jun 2012 197
3 How Do Literary Works Cross Borders (or Not)? Gisèle Sapiro · Journal of World Literature Open access 2016 132
4 Collective Memory in a Global Age Barbara A. Misztal · Current Sociology 2010 125
5 READ THE INSTRUCTIONS: DIDACTIC POETRY AND DIDACTIC PROSE Gregory O. Hutchinson · The Classical Quarterly 23 Apr 2009 120
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Comparative and World Literature research done?

The largest centres of Comparative and World Literature research in 2022-now are Bucharest (Romania), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Galati (Romania) and Sibiu (Romania). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Galati, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BucharestRomania 53 works
  2. 2 Cluj-NapocaRomania 31 works
  3. 3 GalatiRomania 28 works
  4. 4 SibiuRomania 19 works
  5. 5 ChisinauMoldova 19 works
  6. 6 IașiRomania 17 works
  7. 7 Târgu MureşRomania 15 works
  8. 8 BudapestHungary 14 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 12 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GalatiRO · 27.7 works247×
  2. Cluj-NapocaRO · 31.2 works61×
  3. BucharestRO · 52.9 works41×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Comparative and World Literature than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Comparative and World Literature?

Among universities, judged by research, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Babeș-Bolyai University and University of Bucharest 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%30%mean 9.17143%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lucian Blaga Univers…Babeș-Bolyai Univers…University of Buchar…"Dunarea de Jos" Uni…
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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
1Lucian Blaga University of SibiuRomania 72.124.2%281.2×19 +33.6%
2Babeș-Bolyai UniversityRomania 64.99.6%144.7×26 +100.3%
3University of BucharestRomania 48.48.7%113.7×17 +509.6%
4"Dunarea de Jos" University of GalatiRomania 47.15.2%282.9×27 +1200.0%
5Alexandru Ioan Cuza UniversityRomania 41.010.3%144.2×16 +338.9%
6Moldova State UniversityMoldova 7.85.3%191.6×10 -24.1%
7Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 3.40.9%180.1×11 -29.9%

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 Comparative and World Literature, country by country

Is Comparative and World Literature research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 130% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Comparative and World Literature.

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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 Comparative and World Literature as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Comparative and World Literature0.0057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Comparative and World Literature 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%Comparative and World Literature9.9% in 202520102020

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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