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Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies

Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% 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 related to Turkish folklore, including mythology, rituals, traditional beliefs, storytelling, and cultural heritage. It explores the digitization and virtualization of folklore, as well as the biological activities of specific plants in folklore. The papers also delve into the social dynamics and gender roles within Turkish culture.

  • Folklore
  • Turkish Culture
  • Rituals
  • Mythology
  • Traditional Beliefs
  • Ancestral Customs
  • Storytelling
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Symbolism
  • Ethnography
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+51%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
85% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies

Which countries lead Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (6.1k and 226 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 6.1k works
  2. 2 United States 226 works
  3. 3 Azerbaijan 209 works
  4. 4 Kazakhstan 143 works
  5. 5 ?? 120 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 109 works
  7. 7 Russia 96 works
  8. 8 Iraq 73 works
  9. 9 India 56 works
  10. 10 Kyrgyzstan 52 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.

Türkiye: 85.0%United States: 3.1%Azerbaijan: 2.9%Kazakhstan: 2.0%6 others listed: 7.0%85%largest
Türkiye6,131 · 85.0%United States226 · 3.1%Azerbaijan209 · 2.9%Kazakhstan143 · 2.0%6 others listed506 · 7.0%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 188 works
  2. 2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 165 works
  3. 3 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 128 works
  4. 4 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 123 works
  5. 5 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 116 works
  6. 6 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 114 works
  7. 7 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 107 works
  8. 8 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 98 works
  9. 9 Istanbul UniversityTürkiye 97 works
  10. 10 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 91 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies include Michel Foucault, Robert A. Kyle and H. Duran Yıldız.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Robert A. Kyle United States 120k citations
  3. 3 H. Duran Yıldız France 117k 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 Sociopolitical Studies?

The most cited paper in Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies is "Traditional medicine in Turkey X. Folk medicine in Central Anatolia" (Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Gisho Honda et al., 2001), with 569 citations. Next come "Traditional medicine in Turkey. V. Folk medicine in the inner Taurus Mountains" (476) and "Traditional medicine in Turkey IX:" (361).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Traditional medicine in Turkey X. Folk medicine in Central Anatolia Ekrem Sezik, Erdem Yeşilada, Gisho Honda et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology May 2001 569
2 Traditional medicine in Turkey. V. Folk medicine in the inner Taurus Mountains Erdem Yeşilada, Gisho Honda, Ekrem Sezik et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Jun 1995 476
3 Traditional medicine in Turkey IX: Erdem Yeşilada, Ekrem Sezik, Gisho Honda et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Mar 1999 361
4 Traditional medicine in Turkey VI. Folk medicine in West Anatolia: Afyon, Kütahya, Denizli, Muğla, Aydin provinces Gisho Honda, Erdem Yeşilada, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Aug 1996 249
5 Traditional medicine in Turkey VII. Folk medicine in middle and west Black Sea regions Tetsuro Fujita, Ekrem Sezik, Mamoru Tabata et al. · Economic Botany Oct 1995 236
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Izmir (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Wellfleet, Nevşehir and Ardahan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 982 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 793 works
  3. 3 KonyaTürkiye 205 works
  4. 4 IzmirTürkiye 191 works
  5. 5 BakuAzerbaijan 165 works
  6. 6 ErzurumTürkiye 156 works
  7. 7 EskişehirTürkiye 139 works
  8. 8 SivasTürkiye 100 works
  9. 9 SamsunTürkiye 97 works
  10. 10 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 91 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. WellfleetUS · 24.5 works184×
  2. NevşehirTR · 83.8 works133×
  3. ArdahanTR · 38.5 works132×
  4. MardinTR · 71.2 works110×
  5. TurkestanKZ · 27.6 works97×
  6. BitlisTR · 37.6 works80×
  7. KastamonuTR · 80.0 works73×
  8. ArtvinTR · 33.9 works68×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Selçuk University, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi and Mardin Artuklu 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%10%20%mean 13.95%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Mardin Artuklu Unive…Selçuk UniversityHacettepe UniversityAnkara Sosyal Biliml…
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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
1Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 76.216.7%56.6×116 +83.4%
2Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 73.612.0%175.8×188 +13.4%
3Mardin Artuklu UniversityTürkiye 72.416.8%125.8×71 +117.2%
4Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 72.012.3%34.6×114 +43.9%
5İstanbul Nişantaşı ÜniversitesiTürkiye 71.519.8%45.0×16 +142.5%
6Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 70.010.7%178.4×165 +126.0%
7Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 69.311.2%53.2×123 +71.4%
8Anadolu UniversityTürkiye 68.714.5%76.7×64 +21.2%
9Suleyman Demirel UniversityKazakhstan 68.311.6%54.9×50 +50.3%
10Kyrgyz-Türkish Manas ÜniversityKyrgyzstan 68.213.9%161.4×36 +106.2%

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 Sociopolitical Studies, country by country

Is Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 51% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural and Sociopolitical 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 Sociopolitical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.036% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Cultural and Sociopolitical Studies0.026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural and Sociopolitical 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 Sociopolitical Studies9.8% 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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