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Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Digital Humanities and Scholarship is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 20.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of digital technology and humanities, particularly focusing on literary studies. It delves into topics such as digital visualization, text analysis, cultural analytics, markup semantics, and collaborative digital scholarship. The papers also discuss the application of social network analysis and data mining in understanding literary history and scholarly editions.

  • Digital Humanities
  • Literary History
  • Text Analysis
  • Cultural Analytics
  • Markup Semantics
  • Scholarly Editions
  • Data Visualization
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Text Mining
  • Collaborative Digital Scholarship
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
20.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+13%
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Which countries lead Digital Humanities and Scholarship research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (566 and 257 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 566 works
  2. 2 Germany 257 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 230 works
  4. 4 France 133 works
  5. 5 China 119 works
  6. 6 Italy 113 works
  7. 7 Canada 96 works
  8. 8 India 85 works
  9. 9 Spain 55 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 54 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: 33.2%Germany: 15.1%United Kingdom: 13.4%France: 7.8%6 others listed: 30.6%33%largest
United States566 · 33.2%Germany257 · 15.1%United Kingdom230 · 13.4%France133 · 7.8%6 others listed522 · 30.6%

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Which institutions lead Digital Humanities and Scholarship research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Cambridge publishes the most Digital Humanities and Scholarship research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 16 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 13 works
  4. 4 University of HelsinkiFinland 13 works
  5. 5 University of BolognaItaly 12 works
  6. 6 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 11 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  9. 9 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 10 works
  10. 10 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 9 works

Where is Digital Humanities and Scholarship research done?

The largest centres of Digital Humanities and Scholarship research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) and Beijing (China).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 54 works
  2. 2 Paris France 50 works
  3. 3 Berlin Germany 34 works
  4. 4 Beijing China 33 works
  5. 5 New York United States 28 works
  6. 6 Moscow Russia 23 works
  7. 7 Toronto Canada 22 works
  8. 8 Oxford United Kingdom 19 works
  9. 9 Vienna Austria 18 works
  10. 10 Rome Italy 17 works
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Where is the best place to study Digital Humanities and Scholarship?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Helsinki, University of Luxembourg and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 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%20%40%mean 17.57%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Helsinki: 13, 35.4%University of Luxembourg: 11, 9.0%University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 12, 38.0%University of Cambridge: 16, 13.9%University of Bologna: 12, 25.5%University College London: 10, 22.5%Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 10, 6.1%University of Oxford: 15, 5.3%University of Toronto: 13, 10.4%University of Birmingham: 9, 9.6%University of Illino…University of HelsinkiUniversity of Cambri…University of Luxemb…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of HelsinkiFinland 75.935.4%9.2×13 —
2 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 61.59.0%20.0×11 +191.9%
3 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 60.338.0%5.8×12 +38.3%
4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 52.813.9%6.2×16 +29.0%
5 University of BolognaItaly 51.225.5%6.4×12 +2.7%
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 46.122.5%3.0×10 +218.9%
7 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 42.56.1%11.3×10 +43.9%
8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 39.95.3%5.0×15 +45.1%
9 University of TorontoCanada 30.410.4%3.9×13 -26.3%
10 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 29.89.6%6.9×9 -44.0%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Digital Humanities and Scholarship research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 13% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Humanities and Scholarship.

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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.