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Gender, Feminism, and Media

Gender, Feminism, and Media is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of neoliberalism, feminism, and postfeminist culture, with a focus on the influence of celebrity, social media, and digital activism. It delves into topics such as self-branding, sexting, gender dynamics, and the portrayal of femininity in contemporary media. The papers critically examine the impact of neoliberal ideologies on feminist movements and the evolving landscape of gender representation in the digital age.

  • Neoliberalism
  • Feminism
  • Postfeminism
  • Celebrity Culture
  • Social Media
  • Sexting
  • Gender
  • Digital Activism
  • Self-Branding
  • Media Culture
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender, Feminism, and Media

Which countries lead Gender, Feminism, and Media research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (2k and 942 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 942 works
  3. 3 Australia 505 works
  4. 4 China 390 works
  5. 5 Canada 342 works
  6. 6 Spain 336 works
  7. 7 Germany 284 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 274 works
  9. 9 India 267 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 177 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: 35.9%United Kingdom: 17.2%Australia: 9.2%China: 7.1%6 others listed: 30.6%36%largest
United States1,972 · 35.9%United Kingdom942 · 17.2%Australia505 · 9.2%China390 · 7.1%6 others listed1,679 · 30.6%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Feminism, and Media research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Melbourne publishes the most Gender, Feminism, and Media research, followed by Monash University and The University of Sydney.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of MelbourneAustralia 45 works
  2. 2 Monash UniversityAustralia 39 works
  3. 3 The University of SydneyAustralia 36 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 35 works
  5. 5 Deakin UniversityAustralia 31 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 31 works
  7. 7 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 30 works
  8. 8 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 30 works
  9. 9 University of MichiganUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 Indiana UniversityUnited States 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender, Feminism, and Media?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender, Feminism, and Media include Dan J. Stein, Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  2. 2 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  3. 3 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  4. 4 George Patton Australia 200k citations
  5. 5 David Alan Bennett United States 190k citations
  6. 6 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k 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 Gender, Feminism, and Media?

The most cited paper in Gender, Feminism, and Media is "Doing Gender" (Candace West, Don H. Zimmerman, 1987), with 8,858 citations. Next come "I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience" (4,584) and "Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics" (4,326).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Doing Gender Candace West, Don H. Zimmerman · Gender & Society Jun 1987 8,858
2 I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience Alice Emily Marwick, danah boyd · New Media & Society 7 Jul 2010 4,584
3 Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics bell hooks 1990 4,326
4 Machines and Mindlessness: Social Responses to Computers Clifford Nass, Youngme Moon · Journal of Social Issues 2000 3,941
5 The politics of ‘platforms’ Tarleton Gillespie · New Media & Society 9 Feb 2010 2,393
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Gender, Feminism, and Media research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Feminism, and Media research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Sydney (Australia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Burwood.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 197 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 144 works
  3. 3 SydneyAustralia 94 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 78 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 74 works
  6. 6 TorontoCanada 70 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 64 works
  8. 8 BrisbaneAustralia 61 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 53 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BurwoodAU · 31.1 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Monash University, University of Amsterdam and RMIT University 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%20%40%60%mean 23.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityRMIT UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Amster…
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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
1Monash UniversityAustralia 68.728.4%6.0×39 +1.1%
2University of AmsterdamNetherlands 66.715.6%7.6×30 +34.6%
3RMIT UniversityAustralia 62.022.1%9.6×25 +7.6%
4University of TorontoCanada 61.517.4%2.6×35 +16.3%
5University of California, Santa CruzUnited States 61.148.7%6.7×8 +72.2%
6The University of MelbourneAustralia 60.79.2%6.0×44 +20.2%
7Curtin UniversityAustralia 60.428.8%7.2×15 +32.3%
8La Trobe UniversityAustralia 58.417.8%10.9×22 +66.9%
9University of MichiganUnited States 57.722.1%2.9×29 -9.5%
10KU LeuvenBelgium 57.626.0%2.7×17 +29.2%

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 Gender, Feminism, and Media, country by country

Is Gender, Feminism, and Media research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gender, Feminism, and Media.

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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 Gender, Feminism, and Media as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gender, Feminism, and Media 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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