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Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy

Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 6.2k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the political thought of Hannah Arendt, focusing on topics such as totalitarianism, judgment, biopolitics, human rights, democracy, responsibility, sovereignty, violence, plurality, and memory. The papers delve into Arendt's theories and their relevance in contemporary political discourse.

  • Totalitarianism
  • Judgment
  • Biopolitics
  • Human Rights
  • Democracy
  • Responsibility
  • Sovereignty
  • Violence
  • Plurality
  • Memory
Research works
6.2k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
622
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy

Which countries lead Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (307 and 139 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 307 works
  2. 2 Germany 139 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 139 works
  4. 4 Brazil 65 works
  5. 5 Spain 46 works
  6. 6 Canada 42 works
  7. 7 Australia 36 works
  8. 8 France 34 works
  9. 9 Italy 31 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 28 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: 35.3%Germany: 16.0%United Kingdom: 16.0%Brazil: 7.5%6 others listed: 25.1%35%largest
United States307 · 35.3%Germany139 · 16.0%United Kingdom139 · 16.0%Brazil65 · 7.5%6 others listed219 · 25.1%

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

Which institutions lead Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Freie Universität Berlin publishes the most Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and University of Chicago.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 15 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 12 works
  3. 3 University of ChicagoUnited States 8 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 Munich School of PhilosophyGermany 7 works
  7. 7 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 7 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 University of TorontoCanada 6 works
  10. 10 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy include Michel Foucault, Michael J. Mack and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Michael J. Mack United States 154k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  4. 4 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  5. 5 David Hume Australia 107k 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 Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy?

The most cited paper in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy is "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt" (Frederic S. Burin, 1964), with 1,653 citations. Next come "The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science" (986) and "Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy" (976).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt Frederic S. Burin · Political Science Quarterly Mar 1964 1,653
2 The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science Margaret W. Rossiter · Social Studies of Science May 1993 986
3 Distributive Justice, State Coercion, and Autonomy Michael Blake · Philosophy &amp Public Affairs Jul 2001 976
4 Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics Luc Boltanski, Graham Burchell 1999 932
5 The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self Michael J. Sandel · Political Theory Feb 1984 923
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Where is Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research done?

The largest centres of Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Berlin (Germany), Madrid (Spain) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Berlin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  2. 2 BerlinGermany 28 works
  3. 3 MadridSpain 22 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  5. 5 MunichGermany 18 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 16 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 13 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 12 works
  10. 10 MelbourneAustralia 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BerlinDE · 28.4 works7.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy?

Among universities, judged by research, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Chicago and Universidad Complutense de Madrid 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.

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
1Freie Universität BerlinGermany 63.84.2%32.2×15 +200.0%
2University of ChicagoUnited States 48.715.7%8.8×8 +14.7%
3Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 39.73.9%12.1×12 +51.0%

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 Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy, country by country

Is Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0050% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy 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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