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Historical and Literary Analyses

Historical and Literary Analyses is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 23k research works in it since 1950. 11.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to literary and artistic history, including the evolution of cultural expression, educational practices, gender roles, colonial encounters, and scientific exploration. It provides insights into the social interactions, performance arts, and historiography of Europe.

  • literary history
  • artistic expression
  • cultural evolution
  • educational practices
  • historiography
  • performance arts
  • social interactions
  • scientific exploration
  • gender roles
  • colonial encounters
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
54% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical and Literary Analyses

Which countries lead Historical and Literary Analyses research?

By volume, France and Italy publish the most (1.7k and 371 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 1.7k works
  2. 2 Italy 371 works
  3. 3 Spain 283 works
  4. 4 United States 238 works
  5. 5 Canada 149 works
  6. 6 ?? 115 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 103 works
  8. 8 Argentina 71 works
  9. 9 Belgium 70 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 69 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.

France: 54.1%Italy: 11.6%Spain: 8.9%United States: 7.4%6 others listed: 18.0%54%largest
France1,729 · 54.1%Italy371 · 11.6%Spain283 · 8.9%United States238 · 7.4%6 others listed576 · 18.0%

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

Which institutions lead Historical and Literary Analyses research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical and Literary Analyses research, followed by Sorbonne Université and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 413 works
  2. 2 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 83 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 83 works
  4. 4 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 71 works
  5. 5 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 60 works
  6. 6 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 57 works
  7. 7 Université Paris NanterreFrance 56 works
  8. 8 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 48 works
  9. 9 Université de LorraineFrance 41 works
  10. 10 Université de StrasbourgFrance 39 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical and Literary Analyses?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical and Literary Analyses include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Claude Leroy.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  4. 4 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  5. 5 Bruno Latour France 129k 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 Historical and Literary Analyses?

The most cited paper in Historical and Literary Analyses is "Rivista storica italiana" (Gerardo Godoy Echiburú, 1965), with 305 citations. Next come "Origins of sightseeing" (263) and "Reception -- a new humanism? Receptivity, pedagogy, the transhistorical" (209).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Rivista storica italiana Gerardo Godoy Echiburú · Anales de la Universidad de Chile Open access 1965 305
2 Origins of sightseeing Judith E. Adler · Annals of Tourism Research 1989 263
3 Reception -- a new humanism? Receptivity, pedagogy, the transhistorical Charles Martindale · Classical Receptions Journal Open access 14 May 2013 209
4 Fabulae Praetextaein context: when were plays on contemporary subjects performed in Republican Rome? Harriet I. Flower · The Classical Quarterly May 1995 207
5 Written Women: Propertius' Scripta Puella Maria Wyke · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1987 182
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical and Literary Analyses research done?

The largest centres of Historical and Literary Analyses research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Madrid (Spain) and Toulouse (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanterre.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 518 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 144 works
  3. 3 MadridSpain 78 works
  4. 4 ToulouseFrance 72 works
  5. 5 NanterreFrance 70 works
  6. 6 Saint-Martin-d'HèresFrance 57 works
  7. 7 RennesFrance 49 works
  8. 8 NantesFrance 49 works
  9. 9 LilleFrance 48 works
  10. 10 RomeItaly 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NanterreFR · 69.6 works69×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical and Literary Analyses than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Historical and Literary Analyses?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Pisa, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Sorbonne Université 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%30%mean 14.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of PisaUniversidad Complute…Sorbonne UniversitéUniversité de Lyon
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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 PisaItaly 66.724.7%9.4×14 +60.4%
2Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 65.415.2%11.4×32 +7.8%
3Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 64.98.0%38.2×83 +5.9%
4Université de LyonFrance 63.96.7%40.7×83 +32.9%
5University of LausanneSwitzerland 63.014.7%13.9×20 +8.7%
6Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 61.117.7%31.6×24 +34.1%
7Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 59.87.2%46.9×71 +10.9%
8Universidad de SalamancaSpain 59.722.6%10.0×11 -12.4%
9Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 56.616.9%6.3×11 +17.6%
10University of MilanItaly 55.411.6%15.3×32 +26.7%

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 Historical and Literary Analyses, country by country

Is Historical and Literary Analyses research growing?

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

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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 Historical and Literary Analyses as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.017% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Historical and Literary Analyses0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical and Literary Analyses 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%Historical and Literary Analyses9.4% 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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