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Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts

Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts is a research topic within Computer Networks and Communications. Science Explorer counts 24k research works in it since 1950. 11.3% 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 digital communication, information studies, and new media. It includes discussions on editorialization, digital literature, open access, documentary practices, web technologies, and cultural heritage. The papers explore the impact of social media, the challenges of open access, and the evolution of digital communication in various fields.

  • Digital Communication
  • Information Studies
  • New Media
  • Digital Literature
  • Editorialization
  • Social Media
  • Open Access
  • Documentary Practices
  • Web Technologies
  • Cultural Heritage
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
72% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts

Which countries lead Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts research?

By volume, France and Canada publish the most (3.1k and 333 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 3.1k works
  2. 2 Canada 333 works
  3. 3 ?? 270 works
  4. 4 United States 184 works
  5. 5 Belgium 121 works
  6. 6 Switzerland 113 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 65 works
  8. 8 Algeria 54 works
  9. 9 Italy 48 works
  10. 10 Germany 40 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: 71.6%Canada: 7.7%??: 6.2%United States: 4.3%6 others listed: 10.2%72%largest
France3,101 · 71.6%Canada333 · 7.7%??270 · 6.2%United States184 · 4.3%6 others listed442 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 704 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 155 works
  3. 3 Université de LorraineFrance 109 works
  4. 4 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 108 works
  5. 5 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 85 works
  6. 6 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 83 works
  7. 7 Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 83 works
  8. 8 Université Paris 8France 70 works
  9. 9 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 69 works
  10. 10 Université Paris-SaclayFrance 64 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Claude Leroy.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k 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 Insights and Digital Impacts?

The most cited paper in Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts is "The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts1" (Jannis Kallinikos, Aleksi Aaltonen, Attila Márton, 2013), with 777 citations. Next come "Algorithmic governmentality and prospects of emancipation" (639) and "Sur le coloriage des graphs" (536).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Ambivalent Ontology of Digital Artifacts1 Jannis Kallinikos, Aleksi Aaltonen, Attila Márton · MIS Quarterly Jun 2013 777
2 Algorithmic governmentality and prospects of emancipation Antoinette Rouvroy, Thomas Berns, Liz Carey-Libbrecht · Repository of the University of Namur Open access 2013 639
3 Sur le coloriage des graphs Jan Mycielski · Colloquium Mathematicum Open access 1955 536
4 Research “in the wild” and the shaping of new social identities Michel Callon, Vololona Rabeharisoa · Technology in Society Open access Apr 2003 353
5 La vie de laboratoire: la production des faits scientifiques Steve Woolgar, Bruno Latour · Natures Sciences Sociétés Open access Oct 1997 302
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts research done?

The largest centres of Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Montreal (Canada) and Toulouse (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Marseille, Metz and Grenoble.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 933 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 188 works
  3. 3 MontrealCanada 157 works
  4. 4 ToulouseFrance 140 works
  5. 5 LilleFrance 112 works
  6. 6 RennesFrance 93 works
  7. 7 MarseilleFrance 88 works
  8. 8 NanterreFrance 86 works
  9. 9 VilleurbanneFrance 75 works
  10. 10 MontpellierFrance 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Marseille26.4 works503×
  2. Metz45.1 works331×
  3. Grenoble22.6 works235×
  4. Issy-les-MoulineauxFR · 26.7 works228×
  5. Paris45.3 works110×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Limoges, Université de Lyon and University of Lausanne score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 16.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université de LimogesUniversity of LausanneConservatoire Nation…Université de Lyon
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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.

Citation 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 LimogesFrance 71.123.0%68.5×17 +28.4%
2Université de LyonFrance 69.69.5%60.4×155 +21.4%
3University of LausanneSwitzerland 69.322.5%16.7×30 -17.8%
4Conservatoire National des Arts et MétiersFrance 69.020.0%67.8×22 -8.6%
5Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 65.411.1%29.2×45 +19.3%
6Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 65.29.2%65.7×108 +27.3%
7Université Gustave EiffelFrance 64.214.3%41.5×25 +14.6%
8UCLouvainBelgium 63.225.4%11.3×16 -50.9%
9University of GenevaSwitzerland 63.116.7%10.3×17 +3.4%
10Université Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-PyrénéesFrance 62.714.6%20.2×13 +59.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Insights and Digital Impacts, country by country

Is Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% 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 Insights and Digital Impacts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural Insights and Digital Impacts 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 Insights and Digital Impacts9.8% 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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