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Cultural Identity and Heritage

Cultural Identity and Heritage is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 11.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex interplay between cultural heritage, identity formation, and the politics of memory. It delves into topics such as the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, the impact of tourism on heritage sites, the construction of national identities, and the legacy of colonialism. The papers also discuss the role of ethnology in understanding cultural heritage and the challenges posed by globalization to traditional notions of heritage.

  • Heritage
  • Identity
  • Tourism
  • Memory
  • Culture
  • Politics
  • Ethnology
  • Nationalism
  • Colonialism
  • Globalization
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
73% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural Identity and Heritage

Which countries lead Cultural Identity and Heritage research?

By volume, France and Canada publish the most (2.3k and 164 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 2.3k works
  2. 2 Canada 164 works
  3. 3 United States 154 works
  4. 4 ?? 132 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 79 works
  6. 6 Spain 74 works
  7. 7 Switzerland 71 works
  8. 8 Belgium 70 works
  9. 9 Algeria 67 works
  10. 10 Italy 49 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.

France: 73.1%Canada: 5.1%United States: 4.8%??: 4.1%6 others listed: 12.8%73%largest
France2,334 · 73.1%Canada164 · 5.1%United States154 · 4.8%??132 · 4.1%6 others listed410 · 12.8%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural Identity and Heritage research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Cultural Identity and Heritage research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université de Lorraine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 719 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 69 works
  3. 3 Université de LorraineFrance 56 works
  4. 4 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 51 works
  5. 5 Université Paris NanterreFrance 46 works
  6. 6 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 46 works
  7. 7 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 46 works
  8. 8 Ministère de la CultureAlgeria 45 works
  9. 9 École des hautes études en sciences socialesFrance 41 works
  10. 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural Identity and Heritage?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural Identity and Heritage include Pierre Bourdıeu, Claude Leroy and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  4. 4 Michael J. Keating United States 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 Identity and Heritage?

The most cited paper in Cultural Identity and Heritage is "Outline of a Theory of Practice" (Pierre Bourdıeu, 2007), with 5,556 citations. Next come "A definition of cultural heritage: From the tangible to the intangible" (929) and "Local Development and Heritage: Traditional Food and Cuisine as Tourist Attractions in Rural Areas" (794).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Outline of a Theory of Practice Pierre Bourdıeu Book chapterOpen access 6 Dec 2007 5,556
2 A definition of cultural heritage: From the tangible to the intangible Marilena Vecco · Journal of Cultural Heritage 27 Mar 2010 929
3 Local Development and Heritage: Traditional Food and Cuisine as Tourist Attractions in Rural Areas Jacinthe Bessière · Sociologia Ruralis Apr 1998 794
4 Participant Objectivation* Pierre Bourdıeu · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Open access 22 May 2003 633
5 Colonial Aphasia: Race and Disabled Histories in France Ann Laura Stoler · Public Culture 2011 480
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cultural Identity and Heritage research done?

The largest centres of Cultural Identity and Heritage research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Toulouse (France) and Nanterre (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz and Aubervilliers.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 721 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 132 works
  3. 3 ToulouseFrance 97 works
  4. 4 NanterreFrance 86 works
  5. 5 RennesFrance 85 works
  6. 6 NantesFrance 59 works
  7. 7 MarseilleFrance 58 works
  8. 8 MontrealCanada 55 works
  9. 9 MontpellierFrance 51 works
  10. 10 AlgiersAlgeria 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MetzFR · 29.4 works131×
  2. AubervilliersFR · 21.1 works112×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Cultural Identity and Heritage on the map

Where is the best place to study Cultural Identity and Heritage?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Université du Québec à Montréal and Université Paris Nanterre 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 10.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université du Québec…Université Paris Nan…Université de LyonUniversité de Lorraine
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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
1Université de LyonFrance 71.78.4%34.5×69 +17.4%
2Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 67.420.1%28.8×21 -5.6%
3Université Paris NanterreFrance 61.59.4%72.8×46 +5.9%
4Université de LorraineFrance 59.96.7%47.9×56 +25.8%
5University of LausanneSwitzerland 59.316.1%7.1×10 -26.8%
6Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 58.25.5%36.0×46 +9.9%
7Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 58.110.3%101.8×38 +11.8%
8Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 57.910.7%80.8×41 -36.0%
9Université Paris CitéFrance 57.99.3%12.9×30 -30.4%
10Université Bordeaux MontaigneFrance 56.510.0%153.1×31 +55.0%

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 Identity and Heritage, country by country

Is Cultural Identity and Heritage research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Identity and Heritage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Cultural Identity and Heritage0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural Identity and Heritage 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 Identity and Heritage9.7% 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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