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Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies

Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Classics. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 9.5% 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 medieval and early modern studies, including medieval literature, cultural history, religious practices, narrative fiction, humanities, literary discourse, social dynamics, intellectual history, and historical narratives.

  • Medieval Literature
  • Cultural History
  • Religious Practices
  • Narrative Fiction
  • Humanities
  • Literary Discourse
  • Middle Ages
  • Historical Narratives
  • Social Dynamics
  • Intellectual History
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+27%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (961 and 273 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Germany 961 works
  2. 2 United States 273 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 128 works
  4. 4 France 125 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 107 works
  6. 6 Italy 94 works
  7. 7 Austria 87 works
  8. 8 Spain 68 works
  9. 9 Poland 58 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 36 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.

Germany: 49.6%United States: 14.1%Switzerland: 6.6%France: 6.5%6 others listed: 23.2%50%largest
Germany961 · 49.6%United States273 · 14.1%Switzerland128 · 6.6%France125 · 6.5%6 others listed449 · 23.2%

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

Which institutions lead Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München publishes the most Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research, followed by University of Tübingen and University of Cologne.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 37 works
  2. 2 University of TübingenGermany 28 works
  3. 3 University of CologneGermany 25 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 24 works
  5. 5 University of ZurichSwitzerland 23 works
  6. 6 University of ViennaAustria 22 works
  7. 7 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 21 works
  8. 8 Universität HamburgGermany 21 works
  9. 9 University of BonnGermany 20 works
  10. 10 University of MünsterGermany 20 works

Where is Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research in 2022–2025 are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Zurich (Switzerland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Venice.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Berlin Germany 80 works
  2. 2 Munich Germany 64 works
  3. 3 Vienna Austria 46 works
  4. 4 Zurich Switzerland 43 works
  5. 5 Cologne Germany 43 works
  6. 6 Hamburg Germany 37 works
  7. 7 Paris France 35 works
  8. 8 Tübingen Germany 31 works
  9. 9 Frankfurt am Main Germany 31 works
  10. 10 Göttingen Germany 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VeniceIT · 20.8 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Arizona, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and University of Göttingen 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 15.25%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Arizona: 14, 44.4%Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: 37, 5.8%University of Göttingen: 17, 15.2%University of Cologne: 24, 10.0%University of Münster: 20, 17.4%Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 20, 8.4%University of Tübingen: 28, 13.0%University of Bern: 15, 7.6%University of Bonn: 20, 15.7%Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: 13, 15.0%University of ArizonaUniversity of Göttin…University of CologneLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of ArizonaUnited States 74.444.4%10.2×14 +122.5%
2 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 69.35.8%27.3×37 +183.9%
3 University of GöttingenGermany 67.115.2%28.8×17 +275.5%
4 University of CologneGermany 66.110.0%34.9×24 +201.3%
5 University of MünsterGermany 64.717.4%26.8×20 +167.1%
6 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 63.58.4%25.6×20 +282.9%
7 University of TübingenGermany 63.413.0%34.2×28 +90.6%
8 University of BernSwitzerland 62.97.6%16.2×15 +310.0%
9 University of BonnGermany 61.715.7%27.4×20 +99.1%
10 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 61.015.0%13.1×13 +213.9%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 27% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies.

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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.