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Cultural and Mythological Studies

Cultural and Mythological Studies is a research topic within General Arts and Humanities. Science Explorer counts 5.6k 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 covers a wide range of interdisciplinary topics in humanities and social sciences, including history, culture, religion, art, society, education, anthropology, music, literature, and philosophy. The papers explore various aspects of human civilization and its development, providing insights into different cultural, social, and historical phenomena.

  • History
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Art
  • Society
  • Education
  • Anthropology
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
Research works
5.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
558
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural and Mythological Studies

Which countries lead Cultural and Mythological Studies research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (451 and 137 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 451 works
  2. 2 Mexico 137 works
  3. 3 Argentina 122 works
  4. 4 Brazil 69 works
  5. 5 Colombia 63 works
  6. 6 United States 56 works
  7. 7 Chile 48 works
  8. 8 Peru 38 works
  9. 9 France 33 works
  10. 10 Italy 25 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.

Spain: 43.2%Mexico: 13.1%Argentina: 11.7%Brazil: 6.6%6 others listed: 25.4%43%largest
Spain451 · 43.2%Mexico137 · 13.1%Argentina122 · 11.7%Brazil69 · 6.6%6 others listed265 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural and Mythological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Cultural and Mythological Studies research, followed by Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 40 works
  2. 2 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 33 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 31 works
  4. 4 Universidad de GranadaSpain 22 works
  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 21 works
  6. 6 Universidad de SevillaSpain 20 works
  7. 7 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 18 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 18 works
  9. 9 Universidad de ValladolidSpain 17 works
  10. 10 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 16 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural and Mythological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural and Mythological Studies include Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman and Fernando Barreiro.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Erving Goffman United States 133k citations
  3. 3 Fernando Barreiro France 129k citations
  4. 4 David Hume Australia 107k citations
  5. 5 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k 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 Cultural and Mythological Studies?

The most cited paper in Cultural and Mythological Studies is "El tema de nuestro tiempo" (José Ortéga y Gassét, 2014), with 158 citations. Next come "BLASPHEMY AND THE PLAY OF ANGER IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN" (101) and "Los libros del conquistador" (97).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 El tema de nuestro tiempo José Ortéga y Gassét · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access 26 Nov 2014 158
2 BLASPHEMY AND THE PLAY OF ANGER IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN Maureen K. Flynn · Past & Present 1995 101
3 Los libros del conquistador Charles Bell Gibson · Hispanic American Historical Review Feb 1981 97
4 Las estructuras antropológicas de lo imaginario Gilbert Durand, Víctor Florián · Repositorio Institucional UN - Biblioteca Digital Open access Sep 1983 91
5 Marcos de Guerra. Las vidas lloradas Juan Carlos Peña Axt · Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies Open access 25 Feb 2013 87
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Where is Cultural and Mythological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Cultural and Mythological Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Mexico City (Mexico) and Bogotá (Colombia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 128 works
  2. 2 Buenos AiresArgentina 60 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 53 works
  4. 4 BogotáColombia 28 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 26 works
  6. 6 SantiagoChile 25 works
  7. 7 ValenciaSpain 25 works
  8. 8 LimaPeru 24 works
  9. 9 GranadaSpain 24 works
  10. 10 SevilleSpain 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Cultural and Mythological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universitat de Barcelona and Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia 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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 77.911.3%44.7×40 +17.6%
2Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 65.315.2%21.1×16 -6.3%
3Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 60.010.7%75.8×14 +35.1%
4Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 56.08.0%35.5×20 +19.0%
5Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 53.26.1%80.4×33 +119.7%
6Universidad de SalamancaSpain 53.213.3%42.4×15 +4.6%
7Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 50.710.4%31.1×31 -10.3%
8Universitat de ValènciaSpain 50.29.1%29.3×16 +8.6%
9Universidad de GranadaSpain 49.26.9%39.0×22 +49.4%
10Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 49.212.4%23.2×8 +72.2%

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 Cultural and Mythological Studies, country by country

Is Cultural and Mythological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural and Mythological 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 Cultural and Mythological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Cultural and Mythological Studies0.0066% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural and Mythological 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%Cultural and Mythological Studies9.6% 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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