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Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies

Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 648 research works in it since 1959. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of psychoanalysis, politics, and social movements, with a focus on postcolonialism, gender studies, cultural studies, neoliberalism, activism, subjectivity, and colonial discourse. It delves into the complexities of individual and collective subjectivities within political and social contexts.

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Politics
  • Social Movements
  • Postcolonialism
  • Gender Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • Neoliberalism
  • Activism
  • Subjectivity
  • Colonial Discourse
Research works
648
fractional, since 1959
In the world top 10%
67
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies

Which countries lead Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (55 and 22 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 55 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 22 works
  3. 3 Germany 11 works
  4. 4 Canada 8 works
  5. 5 Australia 7 works
  6. 6 France 7 works
  7. 7 Brazil 6 works
  8. 8 Italy 5 works
  9. 9 India 5 works
  10. 10 China 5 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: 41.8%United Kingdom: 16.6%Germany: 8.5%Canada: 5.9%6 others listed: 27.3%42%largest
United States55 · 41.8%United Kingdom22 · 16.6%Germany11 · 8.5%Canada8 · 5.9%6 others listed36 · 27.3%

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

Which institutions lead Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Amsterdam publishes the most Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research, followed by King's College London and University of Copenhagen.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 3 works
  2. 2 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 2 works
  3. 3 University of CopenhagenDenmark 2 works
  4. 4 Lund UniversitySweden 2 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 2 works
  6. 6 University of VermontUnited States 2 works
  7. 7 University of Pittsburgh Medical CenterUnited States 2 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 2 works
  9. 9 Creative CommonsUnited States 1 works
  10. 10 York UniversityCanada 1 works

Who are the leading researchers in Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Contemporary Cultural and Social 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 Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies?

The most cited paper in Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies is "Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism" (Alastair Pennycook, 1996), with 738 citations. Next come "A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity" (601) and "Economy of Dreams: Hope in Global Capitalism and Its Critiques" (293).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism Alastair Pennycook · TESOL Quarterly 1996 738
2 A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity Jason Read · Foucault Studies Open access Feb 2009 601
3 Economy of Dreams: Hope in Global Capitalism and Its Critiques Hirokazu Miyazaki · Cultural Anthropology Open access May 2006 293
4 Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Robert B. Cialdini 6 Sep 2016 247
5 Hermeneutics and Critical Hermeneutics: Exploring Possibilities within the Art of Interpretation Elizabeth Anne Kinsella · Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) Open access Jun 2008 216
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Where is Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Copenhagen (Denmark), New York (United States) and Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  2. 2 CopenhagenDenmark 4 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 3 works
  4. 4 AmsterdamNetherlands 3 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 3 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 2 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 2 works
  8. 8 LundSweden 2 works
  9. 9 BerlinGermany 2 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 2 works
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Is Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Contemporary Cultural and Social 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%Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies11.0% in 20252020

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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