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Early Modern Women Writers

Early Modern Women Writers is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 4.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the religious and social dynamics of Early Modern Catholicism, focusing on women in religion, the Counter-Reformation, convents and monasteries, Catholic identity, gender dynamics, religious patronage, Jesuits and monastic rivalry, spiritual autobiography, and the formation of Catholic communities.

  • Early Modern Catholicism
  • Women in Religion
  • Counter-Reformation
  • Convents and Monasteries
  • Catholic Identity
  • Gender Dynamics
  • Religious Patronage
  • Jesuits and Monastic Rivalry
  • Spiritual Autobiography
  • Catholic Community
Research works
4.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
419
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Early Modern Women Writers

Which countries lead Early Modern Women Writers research?

By volume, the United States and Spain publish the most (296 and 228 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 296 works
  2. 2 Spain 228 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 102 works
  4. 4 France 72 works
  5. 5 Mexico 67 works
  6. 6 Italy 51 works
  7. 7 Canada 37 works
  8. 8 Argentina 29 works
  9. 9 Germany 21 works
  10. 10 Brazil 19 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: 32.1%Spain: 24.7%United Kingdom: 11.0%France: 7.8%6 others listed: 24.4%32%largest
United States296 · 32.1%Spain228 · 24.7%United Kingdom102 · 11.0%France72 · 7.8%6 others listed225 · 24.4%

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

Which institutions lead Early Modern Women Writers research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Early Modern Women Writers research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 24 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 23 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 22 works
  4. 4 Universidad de ValladolidSpain 16 works
  5. 5 Universidad de SevillaSpain 14 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  7. 7 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 Universidad de NavarraSpain 10 works
  9. 9 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 10 works
  10. 10 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Early Modern Women Writers?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Early Modern Women Writers include Stephen Boyd.

  1. 1 Stephen Boyd United States 142k 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 Early Modern Women Writers?

The most cited paper in Early Modern Women Writers is "THE EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, 1560–1640 1" (Lawrence Stone, 1964), with 231 citations. Next come "Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico" (228) and "Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries" (183).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE EDUCATIONAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, 1560–1640 1 Lawrence Stone · Past & Present 1964 231
2 Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico Ben Vinson · Hispanic American Historical Review 7 Oct 2009 228
3 Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition across Five Centuries William B. Taylor · Hispanic American Historical Review May 2002 183
4 First steps in literacy: The reading and writing experiences of the humblest seventeenth‐century spiritual autobiographers Margaret Spufford · Social History Oct 1979 162
5 Ways to the sacred: Reconstructing “religion” in sixteenth century Mexico Inga Clendinnen · History and Anthropology 1990 162
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Early Modern Women Writers research done?

The largest centres of Early Modern Women Writers research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), Paris (France) and Seville (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madrid and Mexico City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 64 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 34 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 24 works
  4. 4 SevilleSpain 17 works
  5. 5 ValladolidSpain 17 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 Buenos AiresArgentina 16 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  9. 9 BarcelonaSpain 15 works
  10. 10 BostonUnited States 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MadridES · 63.9 works12×
  2. Mexico CityMX · 33.8 works9.7×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Early Modern Women Writers than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Early Modern Women Writers?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Salamanca and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 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 10.46%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de Salam…Universidad Complute…University of OxfordUniversidad Nacional…
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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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 76.713.4%26.7×23 +99.8%
2Universidad de SalamancaSpain 61.720.6%24.2×8 +66.7%
3Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 58.58.7%22.6×22 +43.7%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 52.710.1%8.7×12 +37.2%
5Universidad de ValladolidSpain 51.36.9%55.8×16 +107.1%
6Universidad de SevillaSpain 45.88.5%25.4×14 +124.0%
7Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 41.310.1%13.8×9 +178.5%
8Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 38.310.3%28.3×10 -2.0%
9Universidad de NavarraSpain 34.38.8%37.7×10 -24.2%
10Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 30.67.2%15.5×8 +4.2%

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 Early Modern Women Writers, country by country

Is Early Modern Women Writers research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Early Modern Women Writers.

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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 Early Modern Women Writers as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Early Modern Women Writers0.0054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Early Modern Women Writers 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%Early Modern Women Writers9.6% 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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