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French Literature and Poetry

French Literature and Poetry is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 7.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.7% 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 related to French literature and culture studies, with a focus on the 19th century. It includes discussions on Baudelaire, soundscapes of Paris, French salons, cultural heritage, refugee experiences, ethnic discrimination, and indigenous peoples. Additionally, it explores the challenges of literary translation and the impact of political events on French literature.

  • Baudelaire
  • French literature
  • 19th century
  • Salons
  • Cultural heritage
  • Refugees
  • Ethnic discrimination
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Soundscapes
  • Literary translation
Research works
7.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
808
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
48% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
French Literature and Poetry

Which countries lead French Literature and Poetry research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (475 and 133 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 475 works
  2. 2 United States 133 works
  3. 3 Brazil 93 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 71 works
  5. 5 Canada 50 works
  6. 6 Italy 44 works
  7. 7 Belgium 40 works
  8. 8 ?? 31 works
  9. 9 Spain 29 works
  10. 10 Germany 27 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: 47.9%United States: 13.4%Brazil: 9.4%United Kingdom: 7.1%6 others listed: 22.2%48%largest
France475 · 47.9%United States133 · 13.4%Brazil93 · 9.4%United Kingdom71 · 7.1%6 others listed220 · 22.2%

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

Which institutions lead French Literature and Poetry research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most French Literature and Poetry research, followed by Université Rennes 2 and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 91 works
  2. 2 Université Rennes 2France 23 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 23 works
  4. 4 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 16 works
  6. 6 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 15 works
  7. 7 Université Paris NanterreFrance 15 works
  8. 8 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 13 works
  9. 9 Université de StrasbourgFrance 13 works
  10. 10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in French Literature and Poetry?

The most-cited researchers publishing on French Literature and Poetry include George Davey Smith, Michel Foucault and Claude Leroy.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  4. 4 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  5. 5 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k citations
  6. 6 Peter Dayan United Kingdom 91k citations
  7. 7 Richard F. Hobbs United Kingdom 89k citations
  8. 8 Peter Brooks Australia 86k 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 French Literature and Poetry?

The most cited paper in French Literature and Poetry is "Meter in Poetry: A New Theory" (Nigel Fabb, Morris Halle, 2008), with 204 citations. Next come "The Flâneur and the Aesthetic" (122) and "La m�thode d'Horace �clat�e: application � l'interpolation en degr� quatre" (85).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Meter in Poetry: A New Theory Nigel Fabb, Morris Halle 15 Sep 2008 204
2 The Flâneur and the Aesthetic Mary Gluck · Theory Culture & Society Oct 2003 122
3 La m�thode d'Horace �clat�e: application � l'interpolation en degr� quatre James W. Alexander, André Hirschowitz · Inventiones mathematicae Dec 1992 85
4 In the frame: women's ekphrastic poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheeler Diederik Oostdijk · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 2010 75
5 Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens Simon Critchley 18 Feb 2005 72
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Where is French Literature and Poetry research done?

The largest centres of French Literature and Poetry research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Rennes (France) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rennes and Lyon.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 148 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 34 works
  3. 3 RennesFrance 27 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 26 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 22 works
  6. 6 BrusselsBelgium 18 works
  7. 7 NanterreFrance 17 works
  8. 8 NantesFrance 15 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 14 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. RennesFR · 26.7 works37×
  2. LyonFR · 34.1 works32×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in French Literature and Poetry than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study French Literature and Poetry?

Among universities, judged by research, Sorbonne Université, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and Universidade de São Paulo 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%5%10%mean 7.02%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade de São …Université Sorbonne …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
1Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 77.08.5%30.4×22 +17.5%
2Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 70.09.2%128.6×16 +29.8%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 66.411.2%6.0×13 +44.8%
4Université de LyonFrance 62.94.9%33.9×23 +75.1%
5Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 54.56.6%35.8×15 +60.6%
6Université Rennes 2France 50.84.4%250.6×23 +165.0%
7Université Paris CitéFrance 44.67.2%11.1×9 +9.6%
8Université Paris NanterreFrance 42.44.1%68.8×15 +18.8%
9Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 41.26.1%29.4×10 +99.0%
10Université de LorraineFrance 39.78.0%25.9×10 +59.5%

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 French Literature and Poetry, country by country

Is French Literature and Poetry research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are French Literature and Poetry.

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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 French Literature and Poetry as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0046% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%French Literature and Poetry0.0056% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of French Literature and Poetry 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%French Literature and Poetry9.3% 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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