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Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies is a research topic within Anthropology. Science Explorer counts 1.8k research works in it since 1958. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores decolonial and postcolonial studies in a global context, addressing themes such as decoloniality, postcolonialism, the Global South, coloniality, feminism, neoliberalism, identity, imperialism, social movements, and cultural reproduction.

  • Decoloniality
  • Postcolonialism
  • Global South
  • Coloniality
  • Feminism
  • Neoliberalism
  • Identity
  • Imperialism
  • Social Movements
  • Cultural Reproduction
Research works
1.8k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
182
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+101%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies

Which countries lead Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (210 and 87 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 210 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 87 works
  3. 3 Brazil 45 works
  4. 4 Canada 35 works
  5. 5 Germany 31 works
  6. 6 Romania 21 works
  7. 7 Australia 20 works
  8. 8 France 18 works
  9. 9 Italy 16 works
  10. 10 India 14 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.

United States: 42.3%United Kingdom: 17.5%Brazil: 9.1%Canada: 7.0%6 others listed: 24.2%42%largest
United States210 · 42.3%United Kingdom87 · 17.5%Brazil45 · 9.1%Canada35 · 7.0%6 others listed120 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Health Affairs publishes the most Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research, followed by University of Cambridge and King's College London.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Health AffairsUnited States 8 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  3. 3 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  4. 4 University of KansasUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 Universidad de LondresMexico 5 works
  7. 7 New York UniversityUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 4 works
  10. 10 University of WarsawPoland 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies include Judith Butler.

  1. 1 Judith Butler United States 116k 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 Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies?

The most cited paper in Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies is "Beyond “identity”" (Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper, 2000), with 2,845 citations. Next come "Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge" (1,225) and "interseccionalidad: una aproximación situada a la dominación" (552).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Beyond “identity” Rogers Brubaker, Frederick Cooper · Theory and Society Open access Feb 2000 2,845
2 Introduction: `Mode 2' Revisited: The New Production of Knowledge Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, Michael Gibbons · Minerva Sep 2003 1,225
3 interseccionalidad: una aproximación situada a la dominación Mará Viveros Vigoya · Debate Feminista Open access 19 Oct 2016 552
4 Theorizing from the Borders Walter D. Mignolo, Madina Tlostanova · European Journal of Social Theory May 2006 490
5 Postsocialist ≠ postcolonial? On post-Soviet imaginary and global coloniality Madina Tlostanova · Journal of Postcolonial Writing 20 Mar 2012 287
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research done?

The largest centres of Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 13 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 11 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 10 works
  5. 5 BucharestRomania 9 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 9 works
  7. 7 BethesdaUnited States 8 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 8 works
  9. 9 ViennaAustria 8 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 26.8 works4.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies than the world average.

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Is Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 101% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Decolonial Thought and Epistemologies 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.

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Which topics inside it are moving

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