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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. 10.1% 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%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Which countries lead Digital Humanities and Scholarship research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (780 and 427 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 780 works
  2. 2 Germany 427 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 318 works
  4. 4 Italy 189 works
  5. 5 China 175 works
  6. 6 France 159 works
  7. 7 India 132 works
  8. 8 Canada 116 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 97 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 91 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: 31.4%Germany: 17.2%United Kingdom: 12.8%Italy: 7.6%6 others listed: 31.0%31%largest
United States780 · 31.4%Germany427 · 17.2%United Kingdom318 · 12.8%Italy189 · 7.6%6 others listed770 · 31.0%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Humanities and Scholarship research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Digital Humanities and Scholarship research, followed by Leibniz Association and Semantic Designs (United States).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 37 works
  3. 3 Semantic Designs (United States)United States 25 works
  4. 4 University of BolognaItaly 25 works
  5. 5 Hexagon (United Kingdom)United Kingdom 25 works
  6. 6 University of LausanneSwitzerland 24 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 20 works
  8. 8 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  9. 9 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 17 works
  10. 10 University of LuxembourgLuxembourg 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Humanities and Scholarship?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Humanities and Scholarship include Michel Foucault, David Lawrence Silver and Peter W.F. Wilson.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 David Lawrence Silver United Kingdom 168k citations
  3. 3 Peter W.F. Wilson United States 161k 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 Digital Humanities and Scholarship?

The most cited paper in Digital Humanities and Scholarship is "DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP" (J. B. Harley, 1989), with 2,119 citations. Next come "NOTES ON A SCHEMA FOR STORIES" (1,604) and "TextTiling: segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages" (1,250).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP J. B. Harley · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization Open access Jun 1989 2,119
2 NOTES ON A SCHEMA FOR STORIES David E. Rumelhart · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1975 1,604
3 TextTiling: segmenting text into multi-paragraph subtopic passages Marti A. Hearst Mar 1997 1,250
4 Information as thing Michael K. Buckland · Journal of the American Society for Information Science Open access Jun 1991 1,156
5 Confluent Reductions: Abstract Properties and Applications to Term Rewriting Systems Gérard Huet · Journal of the ACM Open access Oct 1980 1,085
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Humanities and Scholarship research done?

The largest centres of Digital Humanities and Scholarship research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Berlin (Germany), Paris (France) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cobham, Mainz and Austin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 69 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 64 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 61 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 43 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 AustinUnited States 32 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 29 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 29 works
  9. 9 BolognaItaly 27 works
  10. 10 ViennaAustria 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CobhamGB · 24.7 works376×
  2. MainzDE · 21.2 works11×
  3. AustinUS · 32.2 works8.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Humanities and Scholarship than the world average.

See Digital Humanities and Scholarship on the map

Where is the best place to study Digital Humanities and Scholarship?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Helsinki, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Uppsala University 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%30%mean 13.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Illino…University of HelsinkiUppsala UniversityUniversity of Bern
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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
1University of HelsinkiFinland 70.622.6%7.4×16 -12.4%
2University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 66.825.2%4.6×12 +35.1%
3Uppsala UniversitySweden 59.817.7%6.3×10 +84.8%
4University of BernSwitzerland 56.014.1%7.9×13 +158.9%
5University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 55.66.9%5.5×20 +91.3%
6University of LausanneSwitzerland 54.89.0%17.3×24 -35.8%
7KU LeuvenBelgium 53.06.3%5.2×16 +29.7%
8University of BolognaItaly 51.79.4%9.9×25 -29.7%
9University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 49.16.5%4.3×18 +21.2%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 48.616.7%2.4×12 -30.4%

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 Digital Humanities and Scholarship, country by country

Is Digital Humanities and Scholarship research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Humanities and Scholarship.

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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 Digital Humanities and Scholarship as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Digital Humanities and Scholarship0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital Humanities and Scholarship 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%Digital Humanities and Scholarship9.7% 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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