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Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity

Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 38k 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 encompasses a wide range of topics related to critical hermeneutics, interpretation studies, and narrative analysis. It explores the philosophical, ethical, and cultural dimensions of understanding and interpreting texts, history, and lived experiences. The cluster also delves into the intersection of hermeneutics with religion, identity, and phenomenology.

  • Hermeneutics
  • Narrative
  • Interpretation
  • History
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Religion
  • Cultural Studies
  • Phenomenology
  • Identity
Research works
38k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity

Which countries lead Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (2k and 763 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 2k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 763 works
  3. 3 Australia 586 works
  4. 4 Uzbekistan 482 works
  5. 5 India 429 works
  6. 6 France 372 works
  7. 7 China 353 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 287 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 177 works
  10. 10 Brazil 125 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: 36.2%Indonesia: 13.6%Australia: 10.5%Uzbekistan: 8.6%6 others listed: 31.1%36%largest
United States2,030 · 36.2%Indonesia763 · 13.6%Australia586 · 10.5%Uzbekistan482 · 8.6%6 others listed1,743 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation publishes the most Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research, followed by Weatherford College and Herbalife (Australia).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency FoundationUnited States 763 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 598 works
  3. 3 Herbalife (Australia)Australia 535 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 284 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 173 works
  6. 6 Universitas Sulawesi TenggaraIndonesia 57 works
  7. 7 Toko UniversityTaiwan 49 works
  8. 8 Samarkand State Medical InstituteUzbekistan 48 works
  9. 9 Universitas BojonegoroIndonesia 38 works
  10. 10 Bukhara State Medical Institute named after Abu Ali ibn SinoUzbekistan 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity include David Moher, Yoshua Bengio and George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  3. 3 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  4. 4 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  5. 5 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k 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 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity?

The most cited paper in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity is "Autoethnography: An Overview" (Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Arthur P. Bochner, 2010), with 3,060 citations. Next come "Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research" (2,954) and "Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Phenomenology: A Comparison of Historical and Methodological Considerations" (2,098).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Autoethnography: An Overview Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Arthur P. Bochner · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Open access 24 Nov 2010 3,060
2 Understanding and Validity in Qualitative Research Joseph A. Maxwell · Harvard Educational Review Sep 1992 2,954
3 Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Phenomenology: A Comparison of Historical and Methodological Considerations Susann M. Laverty · International Journal of Qualitative Methods Open access Sep 2003 2,098
4 A phenomenological hermeneutical method for researching lived experience Anders Lindseth, Astrid Norberg · Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences Open access 17 May 2004 1,698
5 Descriptive Versus Interpretive Phenomenology: Their Contributions to Nursing Knowledge Kay A. Lopez, Danny G. Willis · Qualitative Health Research May 2004 1,500
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research done?

The largest centres of Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research in 2022-now are Sebastopol (United States), Weatherford (United States), Sydney (Australia) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sebastopol, Camerton and Bondowoso.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SebastopolUnited States 763 works
  2. 2 WeatherfordUnited States 598 works
  3. 3 SydneyAustralia 542 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 286 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 212 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 146 works
  7. 7 SamarkandUzbekistan 126 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 61 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 59 works
  10. 10 KendariIndonesia 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SebastopolUS · 763.0 works1128×
  2. CamertonGB · 23.0 works934×
  3. BondowosoID · 36.2 works275×
  4. BristolUS · 27.0 works114×
  5. Muara BungoID · 26.7 works90×
  6. BojonegoroID · 38.3 works76×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Kurgan State University and King 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%mean 13.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Harvard UniversityKurgan State Univers…King UniversityWeatherford College
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 63.49.7%75.8×598 +8850.1%
2Kurgan State UniversityRussia 50.421.5%41.9×11 +267.0%
3King UniversityUnited States 45.610.0%145.7×27 -
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 43.742.3%0.4×8 -57.4%
5Samarkand Institute of Economics and ServiceUzbekistan 38.28.0%189.2×29 +135.1%
6Tashkent State University of LawUzbekistan 38.110.8%40.4×22 +47.4%
7University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 36.18.2%2.2×12 +480.0%
8Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural UniversityIndia 35.514.9%27.1×9 -
9Samarkand State Institute of Foreign LanguagesUzbekistan 35.35.9%134.7×31 +106.7%
10National University of UzbekistanUzbekistan 34.85.0%30.1×27 +86.8%

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 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity, country by country

Is Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0047% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity0.0053% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity 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%Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity8.4% 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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