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Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication

Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 22k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on discourse analysis, cultural communication patterns, and language use in the context of the pandemic. It explores topics such as media representation, persuasion strategies, linguistic aspects of pandemics, and the impact of social media on language and culture.

  • Discourse Analysis
  • Cultural Communication
  • Language
  • Media
  • Pandemic
  • Linguistics
  • Persuasion Strategies
  • Social Media
  • Phraseology
  • Coronavirus
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
67% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication

Which countries lead Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (4.9k and 864 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 4.9k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 864 works
  3. 3 United States 425 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 347 works
  5. 5 China 218 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 166 works
  7. 7 Tajikistan 130 works
  8. 8 Poland 115 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 91 works
  10. 10 Belarus 90 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.

Russia: 66.8%Ukraine: 11.7%United States: 5.8%Uzbekistan: 4.7%6 others listed: 11.0%67%largest
Russia4,923 · 66.8%Ukraine864 · 11.7%United States425 · 5.8%Uzbekistan347 · 4.7%6 others listed810 · 11.0%

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

Which institutions lead Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research, followed by Weatherford College and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 570 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 166 works
  3. 3 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 162 works
  4. 4 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 144 works
  5. 5 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 133 works
  6. 6 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 127 works
  7. 7 Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 127 works
  8. 8 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 112 works
  9. 9 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 97 works
  10. 10 Moscow State Linguistic UniversityRussia 81 works

Who are the leading researchers in Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication include Noam Chomsky and Charles Robert Darwin.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  2. 2 Charles Robert Darwin Indonesia 87k 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 Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication?

The most cited paper in Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication is "Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena" (Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson, 1978), with 2,216 citations. Next come "The categories and types of present-day English word-formation; a synchronic-diachronic approach" (483) and ""Reinstatement" of the communicator in delayed measurement of opinion change." (436).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library Book chapter 1978 2,216
2 The categories and types of present-day English word-formation; a synchronic-diachronic approach Sandra Annear Thompson · Lingua 1971 483
3 "Reinstatement" of the communicator in delayed measurement of opinion change. Herbert C. Kelman, Carl I. Hovland · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology Jul 1953 436
4 Latency of instrumental responses as a function of compatibility with the meaning of eliciting verbal signs. Andrew K. Solarz · Journal of Experimental Psychology Apr 1960 405
5 The place of evidentiality within the universal grammatical space Vladimir Plungian · Journal of Pragmatics Mar 2001 396
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research done?

The largest centres of Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Kazan’ (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dolinsk, Kostroma and Maykop.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 1.6k works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 438 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 239 works
  4. 4 Kazan’Russia 185 works
  5. 5 WeatherfordUnited States 166 works
  6. 6 TashkentUzbekistan 153 works
  7. 7 DushanbeTajikistan 130 works
  8. 8 NovosibirskRussia 127 works
  9. 9 SamaraRussia 122 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 114 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DolinskRU · 23.3 works210×
  2. KostromaRU · 32.3 works135×
  3. MaykopRU · 30.4 works115×
  4. SaranskRU · 62.7 works106×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow State University and Financial 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 17.65%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Financial UniversityLomonosov Moscow Sta…Moscow State Univers…Weatherford College
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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
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 71.110.7%26.7×162 +40.8%
2Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 69.28.9%66.7×127 +17.7%
3Financial UniversityRussia 68.021.2%21.4×34 +74.4%
4Weatherford CollegeUnited States 64.68.0%17.4×166 +101.0%
5Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 63.718.5%49.4×112 -25.6%
6Kemerovo State UniversityRussia 63.124.2%70.5×42 +2.3%
7Kutafin Moscow State Law UniversityRussia 62.527.0%16.0×10 +70.0%
8N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny NovgorodRussia 62.216.7%48.4×45 +17.3%
9Volgograd State UniversityRussia 61.317.8%93.9×40 -4.6%
10Saint Petersburg State University of EconomicsRussia 60.523.5%66.1×15 +112.7%

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 Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication, country by country

Is Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication 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%Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication10.0% 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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