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Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

Gothic Literature and Media Analysis is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 9k 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 cultural, societal, and historical impact of zombies, horror narratives, and Gothic literature. It delves into themes such as race, capitalism, postcolonialism, gender, and violence in the context of zombie studies and their representation in literature and media.

  • Zombies
  • Horror
  • Race
  • Capitalism
  • Gothic
  • Narrative
  • Postcolonialism
  • Gender
  • Violence
  • Literature
Research works
9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
901
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gothic Literature and Media Analysis

Which countries lead Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (654 and 325 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 654 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 325 works
  3. 3 India 122 works
  4. 4 Australia 119 works
  5. 5 Spain 108 works
  6. 6 Canada 96 works
  7. 7 China 94 works
  8. 8 Poland 85 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 80 works
  10. 10 Germany 79 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: 37.2%United Kingdom: 18.5%India: 6.9%Australia: 6.7%6 others listed: 30.7%37%largest
United States654 · 37.2%United Kingdom325 · 18.5%India122 · 6.9%Australia119 · 6.7%6 others listed540 · 30.7%

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

Which institutions lead Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research, followed by University of Warsaw and University of Warwick.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 28 works
  2. 2 University of WarsawPoland 13 works
  3. 3 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 12 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 12 works
  5. 5 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 12 works
  6. 6 The University of MelbourneAustralia 11 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  8. 8 Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 11 works
  9. 9 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 10 works
  10. 10 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gothic Literature and Media Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gothic Literature and Media Analysis include Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k 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 Gothic Literature and Media Analysis?

The most cited paper in Gothic Literature and Media Analysis is "Procedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented During the Ainsworth Strange Situation" (Mary Main, Judith Solomon, 2026), with 2,002 citations. Next come "INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA" (735) and "THE EVOLUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH" (597).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Procedures for Identifying Infants as Disorganized/Disoriented During the Ainsworth Strange Situation Mary Main, Judith Solomon Book chapter 2 Sep 2026 2,002
2 INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA Bruno Jirgensons, M. E. Straumanis · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1962 735
3 THE EVOLUTION AND FUNCTIONS OF LAUGHTER AND HUMOR: A SYNTHETIC APPROACH Matthew M. Gervais, David Sloan Wilson · The Quarterly Review of Biology Dec 2005 597
4 A Critical Reappraisal of the Bleeding Time* R. P. Rodgers, Jack Levin · Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis 1990 591
5 Folk devils and moral panics Simon Cottee · Theoretical Criminology Nov 2002 591
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Where is Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Los Angeles (United States), Melbourne (Australia) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 49 works
  2. 2 Los AngelesUnited States 42 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 30 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 23 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 21 works
  7. 7 SydneyAustralia 21 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 20 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 19 works
  10. 10 WarsawPoland 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Gothic Literature and Media Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Cambridge, University of Warwick and The University of Melbourne 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
1University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 88.116.0%4.7×12 +73.4%
2University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 82.910.4%12.1×12 +16.8%
3The University of MelbourneAustralia 75.813.6%4.7×11 +10.6%
4The University of SydneyAustralia 62.615.5%3.1×8 +223.9%
5Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 61.34.1%17.3×11 +487.5%
6Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 57.08.7%10.6×10 +114.3%
7University of WarsawPoland 56.03.2%11.3×12 +41.9%
8Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 45.40.8%6.2×12 +54.7%
9Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom 38.86.9%14.8×8 -23.9%
10University of TorontoCanada 35.17.7%1.8×8 -11.7%

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 Gothic Literature and Media Analysis, country by country

Is Gothic Literature and Media Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gothic Literature and Media Analysis.

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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 Gothic Literature and Media Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0096% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Gothic Literature and Media Analysis0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gothic Literature and Media Analysis 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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