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Cultural and Social Studies

Cultural and Social Studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 762 research works in it since 1970. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics within cultural studies and social sciences, including cultural identity, education, globalization, sustainability, media industry, traditional culture, social sustainability, language policy, feminism, and vernacular architecture.

  • Cultural Identity
  • Education
  • Globalization
  • Sustainability
  • Media Industry
  • Traditional Culture
  • Social Sustainability
  • Language Policy
  • Feminism
  • Vernacular Architecture
Research works
762
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
78
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+298%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural and Social Studies

Which countries lead Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume, Indonesia and Brazil publish the most (348 and 37 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 348 works
  2. 2 Brazil 37 works
  3. 3 France 20 works
  4. 4 United States 14 works
  5. 5 China 10 works
  6. 6 ?? 8 works
  7. 7 Germany 7 works
  8. 8 Philippines 7 works
  9. 9 Portugal 5 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 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.

Indonesia: 75.6%Brazil: 8.0%France: 4.3%United States: 3.1%6 others listed: 9.1%76%largest
Indonesia348 · 75.6%Brazil37 · 8.0%France20 · 4.3%United States14 · 3.1%6 others listed42 · 9.1%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, State University of Semarang publishes the most Cultural and Social Studies research, followed by Indonesia University of Education and Universitas Gadjah Mada.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State University of SemarangIndonesia 9 works
  2. 2 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 9 works
  3. 3 Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 9 works
  4. 4 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 8 works
  5. 5 State University of MakassarIndonesia 8 works
  6. 6 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 7 works
  7. 7 Universitas Sumatera UtaraIndonesia 7 works
  8. 8 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 7 works
  9. 9 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 7 works
  10. 10 State University of PadangIndonesia 7 works

What are the most cited papers in Cultural and Social Studies?

The most cited paper in Cultural and Social Studies is "Can Corporations be Citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a Metaphor for Business Participation in Society" (Jeremy Moon, Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten, 2005), with 468 citations. Next come "Voices of “disabled” post secondary students: Examining higher education “disability” policy using an ableism lens." (171) and "Identity, contingency and rigidity" (104).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Can Corporations be Citizens? Corporate Citizenship as a Metaphor for Business Participation in Society Jeremy Moon, Andrew Crane, Dirk Matten · Business Ethics Quarterly Jul 2005 468
2 Voices of “disabled” post secondary students: Examining higher education “disability” policy using an ableism lens. Emily J. Hutcheon, Gregor Wolbring · Journal of Diversity in Higher Education 6 Feb 2012 171
3 Identity, contingency and rigidity Nico Carpentier · Journalism 27 Apr 2005 104
4 Swimming in Cultural Flows: Conceptualising Tour Guides as Intercultural Mediators and Cosmopolitans Nicolai Scherle, Almut Nonnenmann · Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Sep 2008 75
5 The Study of Philosophical Meaning of Batik and Kimono Motifs to Foster Collaborative Creative Industry Kundharu Saddhono, Sahid Teguh Widodo, Muhammad Taufiq Al Makmun et al. · Asian Social Science Open access 29 Apr 2014 54
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cultural and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Cultural and Social Studies research in 2022-now are Bandung (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Medan (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yogyakarta, Bandung and Semarang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BandungIndonesia 34 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 31 works
  3. 3 YogyakartaIndonesia 26 works
  4. 4 MedanIndonesia 21 works
  5. 5 SemarangIndonesia 21 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 20 works
  7. 7 SurakartaIndonesia 16 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 16 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 13 works
  10. 10 DenpasarIndonesia 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YogyakartaID · 25.6 works13×
  2. BandungID · 34.4 works13×
  3. SemarangID · 21.0 works12×
  4. MedanID · 21.3 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Cultural and Social Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Indonesia University of Education, Universitas Gadjah Mada and Sebelas Maret 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%5%10%15%mean 8.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sebelas Maret Univer…Indonesia University…Universitas Gadjah M…State University of …
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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
1Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 60.18.1%19.9×9 +325.0%
2Universitas Gadjah MadaIndonesia 54.07.1%20.2×9 +387.2%
3Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 52.813.5%19.9×8 +157.1%
4State University of SemarangIndonesia 37.64.3%26.1×9 -
5State University of MakassarIndonesia 23.79.9%23.4×8 -

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 Social Studies, country by country

Is Cultural and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 298% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural and Social 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 Social Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00078% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%Cultural and Social Studies0.0040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of 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%Cultural and Social Studies10.1% in 2025

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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