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Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues

Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 2.6k research works in it since 1960. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores gender dynamics, social inequality, youth movements, feminism, sexual health, political participation, citizenship, and education in the context of Latin America. It delves into the challenges and advancements in addressing gender disparities and societal inequalities, with a focus on youth activism and social movements.

  • Gender
  • Social Inequality
  • Youth Movements
  • Feminism
  • Sexual Health
  • Political Participation
  • Citizenship
  • Education
  • Social Movements
  • Latin America
Research works
2.6k
fractional, since 1960
In the world top 10%
252
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues

Which countries lead Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research?

By volume, Mexico and Chile publish the most (184 and 137 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 184 works
  2. 2 Chile 137 works
  3. 3 Argentina 120 works
  4. 4 Germany 116 works
  5. 5 Spain 115 works
  6. 6 Colombia 73 works
  7. 7 Brazil 43 works
  8. 8 Ecuador 39 works
  9. 9 Peru 36 works
  10. 10 United States 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.

Mexico: 20.5%Chile: 15.2%Argentina: 13.3%Germany: 12.9%6 others listed: 38.0%21%largest
Mexico184 · 20.5%Chile137 · 15.2%Argentina120 · 13.3%Germany116 · 12.9%6 others listed341 · 38.0%

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

Which institutions lead Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas publishes the most Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Universidad de Buenos Aires.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 30 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 25 works
  3. 3 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 20 works
  4. 4 University of ChileChile 19 works
  5. 5 Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 11 works
  6. 6 Universidad de Santiago de ChileChile 10 works
  7. 7 Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoChile 9 works
  8. 8 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 9 works
  9. 9 Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 8 works
  10. 10 Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues include Elmar Brähler.

  1. 1 Elmar Brähler Germany 56k 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 Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues?

The most cited paper in Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues is "“Ideologia de gênero”: notas para a genealogia de um pânico moral contemporâneo" (Richard Miskolci, Maximiliano Nicolás Campana, 2017), with 196 citations. Next come "Dynamics of Change in Chile: Explaining the Emergence of the 2006PingüinoMovement" (146) and "The photochemical interconversions of provitamin D, lumisterol, previtamin D and tachysterol" (123).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 “Ideologia de gênero”: notas para a genealogia de um pânico moral contemporâneo Richard Miskolci, Maximiliano Nicolás Campana · Sociedade e Estado Open access Dec 2017 196
2 Dynamics of Change in Chile: Explaining the Emergence of the 2006PingüinoMovement Sofía Donoso · Journal of Latin American Studies Feb 2013 146
3 The photochemical interconversions of provitamin D, lumisterol, previtamin D and tachysterol E. Havinga, Rüdiger Kock, M. P. Rappoldt · Tetrahedron 1960 123
4 Discurso, estrategias e interacciones de Vox en su cuenta oficial de Instagram en las elecciones del 28-A. Derecha radical y redes sociales Eva Aladro Vico, Paula Requeijo Rey · Revista Latina de Comunicación Social Open access 29 Jul 2020 93
5 Esbozo de un feminismo latinoamericano María Luisa Femenías · Revista Estudos Feministas Open access Apr 2007 93
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research done?

The largest centres of Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research in 2022-now are Santiago (Chile), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Bogotá (Colombia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santiago.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SantiagoChile 81 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 58 works
  3. 3 Buenos AiresArgentina 50 works
  4. 4 BogotáColombia 29 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 29 works
  6. 6 LimaPeru 22 works
  7. 7 BerlinGermany 16 works
  8. 8 MedellínColombia 15 works
  9. 9 QuitoEcuador 11 works
  10. 10 ValparaísoChile 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SantiagoCL · 81.1 works51×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues than the world average.

See Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues on the map

Where is the best place to study Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Universidad de Buenos Aires 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%mean 9.54%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Pontificia Universid…Pontificia Universid…Universidad de Bueno…Universidad 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.

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
1Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 66.118.5%41.6×11 +184.1%
2Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoChile 56.219.3%116.8×9 -
3Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 53.98.9%56.9×20 +3.2%
4Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 52.97.2%28.8×25 -31.7%
5University of ChileChile 45.46.8%61.0×19 -5.4%
6Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 31.013.7%47.5×8 -7.3%
7Universidad de Santiago de ChileChile 30.94.1%91.9×10 +140.4%
8Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico 21.96.6%31.6×8 +60.8%
9Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay 17.34.9%37.6×8 -17.4%
10Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de PueblaMexico 17.25.4%59.5×8 +45.1%

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 Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues, country by country

Is Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues.

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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 Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0026% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues0.0045% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues 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%Feminism, Gender, and Social Issues9.7% in 202520102020

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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