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Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 5.8k research works in it since 1950. 11.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores death, dying, and cultural practices surrounding mortality across various societies. It delves into topics such as palliative care, mourning rituals, funerary traditions, ethical considerations, historical perspectives, psychological impact, social attitudes, and religious beliefs.

  • Death Studies
  • Cultural Practices
  • Palliative Care
  • Mourning Rituals
  • Funerary Traditions
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Historical Perspectives
  • Psychological Impact
  • Social Attitudes
  • Religious Beliefs
Research works
5.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
661
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
71% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning

Which countries lead Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (834 and 60 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 834 works
  2. 2 United States 60 works
  3. 3 ?? 43 works
  4. 4 Belgium 40 works
  5. 5 Canada 39 works
  6. 6 Spain 35 works
  7. 7 Brazil 34 works
  8. 8 Switzerland 33 works
  9. 9 Italy 29 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 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.

France: 71.2%United States: 5.1%??: 3.6%Belgium: 3.4%6 others listed: 16.7%71%largest
France834 · 71.2%United States60 · 5.1%??43 · 3.6%Belgium40 · 3.4%6 others listed195 · 16.7%

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

Which institutions lead Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research, followed by Université de Lorraine and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 222 works
  2. 2 Université de LorraineFrance 27 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 24 works
  4. 4 Université de Caen NormandieFrance 23 works
  5. 5 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 22 works
  6. 6 Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques PréventivesFrance 21 works
  7. 7 Université de StrasbourgFrance 16 works
  8. 8 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 16 works
  9. 9 Université Paris CitéFrance 16 works
  10. 10 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 15 works

Who are the leading researchers in Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning include Christof Koch and Sigmund Freud.

  1. 1 Christof Koch United States 137k citations
  2. 2 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 Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning?

The most cited paper in Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning is "Unilateral Neglect of Representational Space" (Edoardo Bisiach, Claudio Luzzatti, 1978), with 1,397 citations. Next come "Sur certaines martingales de Benoit Mandelbrot" (493) and "Spatial hemineglect in humans" (492).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Unilateral Neglect of Representational Space Edoardo Bisiach, Claudio Luzzatti · Cortex Open access Mar 1978 1,397
2 Sur certaines martingales de Benoit Mandelbrot J.-P. Kahane, Jacques Peyrière · Advances in Mathematics Open access Nov 1976 493
3 Spatial hemineglect in humans Giuseppe Vallar · Trends in Cognitive Sciences Review Mar 1998 492
4 Remission of hemineglect and anosognosia during vestibular stimulation Stefano Francesco Cappa, Roberto Sterzi, Giuseppe Vallar et al. · Neuropsychologia 1987 420
5 Can Visual Neglect Operate in Object-centred Co-ordinates? An Affirmative Single-case Study Jon Driver, Peter W. Halligan · Cognitive Neuropsychology Nov 1991 406
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Where is Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research done?

The largest centres of Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Toulouse (France) and Lille (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz, Poitiers and Caen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 228 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 44 works
  3. 3 ToulouseFrance 33 works
  4. 4 LilleFrance 31 works
  5. 5 CaenFrance 26 works
  6. 6 NanterreFrance 26 works
  7. 7 RennesFrance 23 works
  8. 8 StrasbourgFrance 22 works
  9. 9 MetzFrance 21 works
  10. 10 PoitiersFrance 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MetzFR · 21.4 works264×
  2. PoitiersFR · 20.2 works81×
  3. CaenFR · 26.4 works80×
  4. NanterreFR · 25.9 works73×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning?

Among universities, judged by research, Université Paris Cité, Université de Strasbourg and Université de Lyon 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 8.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université Paris CitéUniversité de Strasb…Université de LorraineUniversité 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.

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 Paris CitéFrance 63.017.5%18.4×16 -30.3%
2Université de StrasbourgFrance 59.014.0%50.0×16 +9.7%
3Université de LyonFrance 57.06.8%33.8×24 +20.1%
4Université de LorraineFrance 53.57.3%63.5×27 +66.9%
5Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 52.06.8%47.3×22 +34.0%
6Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 45.25.7%29.3×16 +70.1%
7Université de Caen NormandieFrance 42.34.7%121.1×23 +245.8%
8Université Paris NanterreFrance 39.38.4%63.1×14 +3.9%
9Université Paris-SaclayFrance 37.15.3%17.0×12 +182.0%
10Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 32.86.7%20.2×16 -32.3%

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 Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning, country by country

Is Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0056% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning0.0053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning 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 counting10%20%Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning9.6% 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.

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