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Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies

Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 11.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in anthropology, cultural studies, and related fields. It includes studies on rituals, landscape change, gender, colonialism, memory, megalithic monuments, and public services. The papers also explore the intersection of the Global South and Global North in interdisciplinary investigations.

  • Cultural Studies
  • Ethnography
  • Rituals
  • Landscape Change
  • Gender Studies
  • Colonialism
  • Memory Studies
  • Megalithic Monuments
  • Public Services
  • Global South
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies

Which countries lead Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research?

By volume, France and Canada publish the most (2.3k and 146 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 2.3k works
  2. 2 Canada 146 works
  3. 3 United States 146 works
  4. 4 ?? 110 works
  5. 5 Belgium 82 works
  6. 6 Switzerland 66 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 58 works
  8. 8 Italy 57 works
  9. 9 Algeria 46 works
  10. 10 Spain 35 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: 75.5%Canada: 4.8%United States: 4.8%??: 3.6%6 others listed: 11.3%76%largest
France2,301 · 75.5%Canada146 · 4.8%United States146 · 4.8%??110 · 3.6%6 others listed343 · 11.3%

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

Which institutions lead Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research, followed by Université de Lyon and Université Lille Nord de France.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 693 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 80 works
  3. 3 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 56 works
  4. 4 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 51 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 51 works
  6. 6 Université Paris NanterreFrance 49 works
  7. 7 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 44 works
  8. 8 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 43 works
  9. 9 Université Rennes 2France 41 works
  10. 10 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Claude Leroy.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  5. 5 Michael A. Strauss United States 122k citations
  6. 6 Jean Bousquet France 119k citations
  7. 7 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 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies?

The most cited paper in Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies is "Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity" (Lily Kong, 2001), with 574 citations. Next come "Footprints through the weather‐world: walking, breathing, knowing" (542) and "Sur certaines martingales de Benoit Mandelbrot" (493).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity Lily Kong · Progress in Human Geography Jun 2001 574
2 Footprints through the weather‐world: walking, breathing, knowing Tim Ingold · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Apr 2010 542
3 Sur certaines martingales de Benoit Mandelbrot J.-P. Kahane, Jacques Peyrière · Advances in Mathematics Open access Nov 1976 493
4 Driven by drink: The role of drinking in the political economy and the case of Early Iron Age France Michael Dietler · Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Open access Dec 1990 356
5 CHRONICALLY UNSTABLE BODIES: REFLECTIONS ON AMAZONIAN CORPORALITIES Aparecida M. N. Vilaça · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 31 Aug 2005 349
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Toulouse (France) and Nanterre (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Metz, Nanterre and Caen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 693 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 157 works
  3. 3 ToulouseFrance 100 works
  4. 4 NanterreFrance 95 works
  5. 5 RennesFrance 92 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 59 works
  7. 7 NantesFrance 59 works
  8. 8 LilleFrance 56 works
  9. 9 MarseilleFrance 53 works
  10. 10 MontpellierFrance 51 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MetzFR · 38.6 works188×
  2. NanterreFR · 95.3 works106×
  3. Caen20.9 works95×
  4. PoitiersFR · 39.0 works62×
  5. AubièreFR · 20.8 works61×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies than the world average.

See Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres and Sorbonne Université score highest, combining citation 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 12.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université Paris-Sac…Université Paris Sci…Sorbonne UniversitéUniversité 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.

Citation 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 de LyonFrance 73.99.4%43.9×80 +25.9%
2Université Paris Sciences et LettresFrance 69.212.5%28.1×30 +3.4%
3Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 67.110.0%26.6×52 -2.9%
4Université Paris-SaclayFrance 65.714.0%12.3×22 +13.2%
5Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 65.08.5%48.3×56 +22.2%
6Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 64.314.9%103.9×43 +6.4%
7Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 63.816.3%32.2×21 +38.1%
8Université Paris CitéFrance 62.913.7%15.6×33 -14.5%
9University of LausanneSwitzerland 62.120.7%10.4×13 -21.4%
10Université de LorraineFrance 60.97.3%47.7×51 +72.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies, country by country

Is Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies 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%Diverse Cultural and Historical Studies9.5% 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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