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German legal, social, and political studies

German legal, social, and political studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 8.2k research works in it since 1950. 16.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of right-wing extremism, antisemitism, religious fundamentalism, and identity politics in Germany and Israel. It delves into topics such as exile literature, emotionalization, nationalism, gender studies, and the portrayal of the Holocaust in literature. The cluster also addresses cultural memory and the impact of historical events on contemporary ideologies.

  • Right-Wing Extremism
  • Antisemitism
  • Religious Fundamentalism
  • Identity Politics
  • Exile Literature
  • Emotionalization
  • Nationalism
  • Gender Studies
  • Holocaust Literature
  • Cultural Memory
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+63%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead German legal, social, and political studies research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (1.4k and 125 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Germany 1.4k works
  2. 2 Austria 125 works
  3. 3 United States 122 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 69 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 62 works
  6. 6 Poland 35 works
  7. 7 France 28 works
  8. 8 Italy 22 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 18 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 17 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.

Germany: 74.0%Austria: 6.5%United States: 6.4%Switzerland: 3.6%6 others listed: 9.5%74%largest
Germany1,412 · 74.0%Austria125 · 6.5%United States122 · 6.4%Switzerland69 · 3.6%6 others listed181 · 9.5%

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

Which institutions lead German legal, social, and political studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universität Hamburg publishes the most German legal, social, and political studies research, followed by Leipzig University and University of Bremen.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Universität HamburgGermany 46 works
  2. 2 Leipzig UniversityGermany 32 works
  3. 3 University of BremenGermany 31 works
  4. 4 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 30 works
  5. 5 University of ViennaAustria 29 works
  6. 6 University of MünsterGermany 28 works
  7. 7 University of KasselGermany 28 works
  8. 8 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 26 works
  9. 9 University of CologneGermany 26 works
  10. 10 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 25 works

Where is German legal, social, and political studies research done?

The largest centres of German legal, social, and political studies research in 2022–2025 are Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Munich (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Erfurt, Kassel and Bielefeld.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Berlin Germany 129 works
  2. 2 Hamburg Germany 80 works
  3. 3 Vienna Austria 66 works
  4. 4 Munich Germany 66 works
  5. 5 Frankfurt am Main Germany 58 works
  6. 6 Cologne Germany 55 works
  7. 7 Münster Germany 43 works
  8. 8 Essen Germany 36 works
  9. 9 Leipzig Germany 36 works
  10. 10 Mainz Germany 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ErfurtDE · 26.4 works77×
  2. KasselDE · 27.7 works75×
  3. BielefeldDE · 32.6 works56×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in German legal, social, and political studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study German legal, social, and political studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vienna, Technische Universität Dresden and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz 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 19.84%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Vienna: 29, 17.7%Technische Universität Dresden: 20, 26.4%Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz: 18, 30.2%Friedrich Schiller University Jena: 22, 18.2%Leipzig University: 32, 23.7%Bielefeld University: 30, 16.9%Heidelberg University: 18, 13.7%University of Tübingen: 19, 22.7%Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 24, 17.6%Ruhr University Bochum: 19, 11.3%Johannes Gutenberg U…Technische Universit…Friedrich Schiller U…University of Vienna
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of ViennaAustria 45.817.7%29.8×29 +263.1%
2 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 43.626.4%22.2×20 +332.3%
3 Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 42.130.2%29.3×18 +165.2%
4 Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 41.318.2%53.9×22 +246.5%
5 Leipzig UniversityGermany 41.123.7%57.6×32 +99.4%
6 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 40.316.9%64.8×30 +166.1%
7 Heidelberg UniversityGermany 39.213.7%17.8×18 +197.1%
8 University of TübingenGermany 36.422.7%24.9×19 +109.1%
9 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 35.417.6%34.1×24 +79.3%
10 Ruhr University BochumGermany 35.411.3%24.9×19 +283.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is German legal, social, and political studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 63% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are German legal, social, and political studies.

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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.