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Hispanic-African Historical Relations

Hispanic-African Historical Relations is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 5.6k 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 complex interfaith relations, colonial legacy, and historical narratives in Medieval Iberia, with a focus on Convivencia, Al-Andalus, Spanish colonialism in Equatorial Guinea and Morocco, Islamic and Jewish history, and the historiography of this period. It delves into the nuanced interactions between different religious and cultural groups, the impact of colonialism, and the construction of historical memory.

  • Convivencia
  • Al-Andalus
  • Spanish Colonialism
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Morocco
  • Islamic History
  • Jewish History
  • Colonial Heritage
  • Interfaith Relations
  • Historiography
Research works
5.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
575
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Hispanic-African Historical Relations

Which countries lead Hispanic-African Historical Relations research?

By volume, Spain and the United States publish the most (380 and 226 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 380 works
  2. 2 United States 226 works
  3. 3 France 93 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 53 works
  5. 5 Mexico 51 works
  6. 6 Germany 47 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 46 works
  8. 8 Morocco 45 works
  9. 9 Brazil 42 works
  10. 10 Argentina 37 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.

Spain: 37.3%United States: 22.2%France: 9.1%United Kingdom: 5.2%6 others listed: 26.2%37%largest
Spain380 · 37.3%United States226 · 22.2%France93 · 9.1%United Kingdom53 · 5.2%6 others listed268 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Hispanic-African Historical Relations research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Hispanic-African Historical Relations research, followed by Universidad de Granada and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 37 works
  2. 2 Universidad de GranadaSpain 30 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 21 works
  5. 5 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 21 works
  6. 6 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 16 works
  7. 7 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 16 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SevillaSpain 16 works
  9. 9 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 13 works
  10. 10 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Hispanic-African Historical Relations?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Hispanic-African Historical Relations include Jeremy N. Rich and ANDREW J. BUSH.

  1. 1 Jeremy N. Rich United States 62k citations
  2. 2 ANDREW J. BUSH United Kingdom 62k 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 Hispanic-African Historical Relations?

The most cited paper in Hispanic-African Historical Relations is "Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa" (Jane I. Guyer, Samuel M. Eno Belinga, 1995), with 420 citations. Next come "Racialization and Muslims: Situating the Muslim Experience in Race Scholarship" (216) and "Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-made Man" (204).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa Jane I. Guyer, Samuel M. Eno Belinga · The Journal of African History Mar 1995 420
2 Racialization and Muslims: Situating the Muslim Experience in Race Scholarship Saher Selod, David G. Embrick · Sociology Compass Aug 2013 216
3 Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-made Man Adam J. Criblez · History Reviews of New Books 2006 204
4 :Mimesis and Empire: The New World, Islam, and European Identities John Lee · Sixteenth Century Journal Dec 2002 176
5 Higher education and linguistic dualism in the Arab Gulf Sally Findlow · British Journal of Sociology of Education 6 Dec 2005 173
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Where is Hispanic-African Historical Relations research done?

The largest centres of Hispanic-African Historical Relations research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Barcelona (Spain) and Granada (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Granada and Seville.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 110 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 35 works
  3. 3 BarcelonaSpain 32 works
  4. 4 GranadaSpain 32 works
  5. 5 Mexico CityMexico 26 works
  6. 6 SevilleSpain 25 works
  7. 7 LisbonPortugal 22 works
  8. 8 Buenos AiresArgentina 17 works
  9. 9 Cerdanyola del VallèsSpain 16 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GranadaES · 31.9 works33×
  2. SevilleES · 25.2 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Hispanic-African Historical Relations than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Hispanic-African Historical Relations?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah 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%10%20%mean 11.95%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Autónoma…Sidi Mohamed Ben Abd…Universidad Complute…Universitat de Barce…
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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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 61.412.0%34.9×37 +50.8%
2Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 55.921.5%29.9×20 -32.9%
3Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah UniversityMorocco 49.119.4%32.9×11 -
4Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 44.17.8%17.3×16 +100.7%
5Universitat de ValènciaSpain 40.213.1%17.6×12 +29.8%
6University of LisbonPortugal 39.79.1%10.3×10 +30.8%
7Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 38.47.3%20.5×16 +4.1%
8Universidad de GranadaSpain 37.47.3%43.9×30 -22.2%
9Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 31.617.7%50.9×11 -21.0%
10Universidad de SevillaSpain 29.54.3%23.1×16 +21.5%

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 Hispanic-African Historical Relations, country by country

Is Hispanic-African Historical Relations research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Hispanic-African Historical Relations.

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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 Hispanic-African Historical Relations as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Hispanic-African Historical Relations0.0055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Hispanic-African Historical Relations 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%Hispanic-African Historical Relations9.5% 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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