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Gender Politics and Representation

Gender Politics and Representation is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 20k 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 representation and impact of women in political decision-making, including studies on gender quotas, feminist theory, voting behavior, and the intersectionality of gender with other social categories. It also delves into the concept of descriptive representation and its effects on policy outcomes, as well as the global governance of gender issues.

  • Women
  • Policy Makers
  • Gender Mainstreaming
  • Political Representation
  • Quotas
  • Feminist Theory
  • Voting Behavior
  • Intersectionality
  • Descriptive Representation
  • Global Governance
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender Politics and Representation

Which countries lead Gender Politics and Representation research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.2k and 482 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.2k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 482 works
  3. 3 India 342 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 235 works
  5. 5 Germany 225 works
  6. 6 Canada 195 works
  7. 7 Australia 183 works
  8. 8 Brazil 171 works
  9. 9 Spain 163 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 134 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: 36.7%United Kingdom: 14.3%India: 10.2%Indonesia: 7.0%6 others listed: 31.8%37%largest
United States1,232 · 36.7%United Kingdom482 · 14.3%India342 · 10.2%Indonesia235 · 7.0%6 others listed1,071 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Gender Politics and Representation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy publishes the most Gender Politics and Representation research, followed by Australian National University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 36 works
  2. 2 Australian National UniversityAustralia 28 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  4. 4 University of GothenburgSweden 25 works
  5. 5 University of OttawaCanada 22 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 22 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 21 works
  8. 8 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 Uppsala UniversitySweden 20 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender Politics and Representation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender Politics and Representation include Pierre Bourdıeu, David R. Jacobs and Andrew Gelman.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 David R. Jacobs United States 152k citations
  3. 3 Andrew Gelman United States 132k 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 Politics and Representation?

The most cited paper in Gender Politics and Representation is "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989]" (Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, 2018), with 9,540 citations. Next come "Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics." (4,235) and "Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis" (4,084).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989] Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Book chapter 19 Feb 2018 9,540
2 Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. Judith Stacey, R. W. Connell · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Sep 1988 4,235
3 Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis Sumi Cho, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Leslie McCall · Signs Open access 3 May 2013 4,084
4 Inequality Regimes Joan R. Acker · Gender & Society 30 Jun 2006 3,382
5 Should Blacks Represent Blacks and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes" Jane Jebb Mansbridge · The Journal of Politics Aug 1999 2,946
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Where is Gender Politics and Representation research done?

The largest centres of Gender Politics and Representation research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States) and New Delhi (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 120 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 65 works
  3. 3 Washington D.C.United States 58 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 56 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 44 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 43 works
  7. 7 IstanbulTürkiye 41 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 39 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 39 works
  10. 10 CanberraAustralia 38 works
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Where is the best place to study Gender Politics and Representation?

Among universities, judged by research, Uppsala University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and University of Gothenburg 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%mean 24.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Complute…Newcastle UniversityUppsala UniversityUniversity of Gothen…
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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
1Uppsala UniversitySweden 80.230.4%7.9×20 +3.0%
2Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 73.634.3%3.8×16 +73.3%
3University of GothenburgSweden 73.026.4%11.2×25 -42.7%
4Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 71.330.9%5.8×13 +31.4%
5University of AmsterdamNetherlands 70.930.4%6.5×18 -24.5%
6Australian National UniversityAustralia 70.411.9%11.8×28 +20.4%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 69.720.2%2.6×20 +58.1%
8Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain 69.320.0%14.6×13 +52.5%
9Monash UniversityAustralia 68.720.3%4.3×20 +30.1%
10King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.518.7%4.5×18 +7.4%

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 Politics and Representation, country by country

Is Gender Politics and Representation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Gender Politics and Representation.

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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 Politics and Representation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Gender Politics and Representation0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gender Politics and Representation 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%Gender Politics and Representation10.5% 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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