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Foucault, Power, and Ethics

Foucault, Power, and Ethics is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 8.4k 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 Foucauldian governmentality, neoliberalism, and power dynamics. It delves into topics such as biopolitics, subjectivity, resistance, and ethics within the context of modern governance. The discourse analysis of governmental strategies and the critique of liberal practices are central themes in these studies.

  • Foucault
  • Governmentality
  • Neoliberalism
  • Power
  • Critique
  • Biopolitics
  • Subjectivity
  • Resistance
  • Ethics
  • Discourse Analysis
Research works
8.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
844
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Foucault, Power, and Ethics

Which countries lead Foucault, Power, and Ethics research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (266 and 230 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 266 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 230 works
  3. 3 Germany 90 works
  4. 4 Brazil 82 works
  5. 5 Canada 75 works
  6. 6 Australia 66 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 56 works
  8. 8 France 50 works
  9. 9 India 46 works
  10. 10 China 42 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: 26.5%United Kingdom: 22.9%Germany: 9.0%Brazil: 8.2%6 others listed: 33.5%27%largest
United States266 · 26.5%United Kingdom230 · 22.9%Germany90 · 9.0%Brazil82 · 8.2%6 others listed336 · 33.5%

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

Which institutions lead Foucault, Power, and Ethics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Foucault, Power, and Ethics research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 14 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 11 works
  3. 3 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 10 works
  4. 4 London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 10 works
  5. 5 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  6. 6 University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 9 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 9 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 8 works
  9. 9 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  10. 10 Roskilde UniversityDenmark 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Foucault, Power, and Ethics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Foucault, Power, and Ethics include Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  4. 4 Anthony Giddens United States 121k 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 Foucault, Power, and Ethics?

The most cited paper in Foucault, Power, and Ethics is "Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter" (Karen M. Barad, 2003), with 7,005 citations. Next come "Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care" (5,394) and "Two Faces of Power" (3,387).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter Karen M. Barad · Signs Mar 2003 7,005
2 Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care Joan C. Tronto 9 Sep 1993 5,394
3 Two Faces of Power Peter Bachrach, Morton S. Baratz · American Political Science Review Dec 1962 3,387
4 Political power beyond the State: problematics of government Nikolas Rose, Peter Benson Miller · British Journal of Sociology 2010 3,206
5 The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach Margaret R. Somers · Theory and Society Oct 1994 2,938
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Where is Foucault, Power, and Ethics research done?

The largest centres of Foucault, Power, and Ethics research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), New York (United States) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 56 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 22 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 15 works
  5. 5 OxfordUnited Kingdom 14 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 14 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 14 works
  8. 8 ManchesterUnited Kingdom 14 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 14 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 13 works
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Where is the best place to study Foucault, Power, and Ethics?

Among universities, judged by research, London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London and University of Oxford 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.

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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
1London School of Economics and Political ScienceUnited Kingdom 83.823.7%32.4×10 +83.8%
2King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 62.321.6%8.8×10 +72.7%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 52.613.4%5.8×11 +47.2%
4University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 52.011.1%8.8×10 -4.4%
5University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 49.720.1%8.0×9 +10.0%
6University College LondonUnited Kingdom 48.126.4%3.7×8 -12.0%
7University of TorontoCanada 30.817.7%3.3×9 +4.5%

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 Foucault, Power, and Ethics, country by country

Is Foucault, Power, and Ethics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Foucault, Power, and Ethics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Foucault, Power, and Ethics 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.

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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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