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History and Cultural Heritage

History and Cultural Heritage is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 4.6k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of globalization, immigration, neoliberalism, and cultural exchange on various aspects of society including education, art, architecture, and social psychology. It delves into the challenges and prospects of Muslim identity in the context of globalization, as well as the influence of neoliberalism on human agency and cultural exchange.

  • Globalization
  • Cultural Exchange
  • Immigration
  • Neoliberalism
  • Human Agency
  • European Immigration
  • Education
  • Muslim Identity
  • Art and Architecture
  • Social Psychology
Research works
4.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
451
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+88%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
70% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
History and Cultural Heritage

Which countries lead History and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume, Türkiye and Armenia publish the most (1.6k and 207 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.6k works
  2. 2 Armenia 207 works
  3. 3 United States 133 works
  4. 4 Azerbaijan 112 works
  5. 5 Georgia 49 works
  6. 6 Russia 44 works
  7. 7 Germany 41 works
  8. 8 Czechia 33 works
  9. 9 ?? 29 works
  10. 10 Kazakhstan 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.

Türkiye: 69.9%Armenia: 9.2%United States: 5.9%Azerbaijan: 5.0%6 others listed: 10.0%70%largest
Türkiye1,575 · 69.9%Armenia207 · 9.2%United States133 · 5.9%Azerbaijan112 · 5.0%6 others listed225 · 10.0%

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

Which institutions lead History and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume in 2022-now, Yerevan State University publishes the most History and Cultural Heritage research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Selçuk University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Yerevan State UniversityArmenia 53 works
  2. 2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 47 works
  3. 3 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 40 works
  4. 4 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 39 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 36 works
  6. 6 Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 35 works
  7. 7 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 34 works
  8. 8 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 34 works
  9. 9 National Academy of Sciences of ArmeniaArmenia 30 works
  10. 10 Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar ÜniversitesiTürkiye 29 works

Who are the leading researchers in History and Cultural Heritage?

The most-cited researchers publishing on History and Cultural Heritage include Mustafa Şahin.

  1. 1 Mustafa Şahin United States 34k 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 History and Cultural Heritage?

The most cited paper in History and Cultural Heritage is "The Shopping Mall as an Emergent Public Space in Turkey" (Feyzan Erkip, 2003), with 137 citations. Next come "Ancient Anatolia, Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara" (55) and "Linguistic diversity and everyday life in the Ottoman cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans (late 19th–early 20th century)" (54).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Shopping Mall as an Emergent Public Space in Turkey Feyzan Erkip · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space Open access Jun 2003 137
2 Ancient Anatolia, Fifty Years’ Work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Tyler Jo Smith Book chapter 2001 55
3 Linguistic diversity and everyday life in the Ottoman cities of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans (late 19th–early 20th century) Johann Strauß · The History of the Family 22 May 2011 54
4 Karahan Tepe: a new cultural centre in the Urfa Area in Turkey Bahattin Çelik · Documenta Praehistorica Open access 23 Nov 2011 44
5 DÜNYADA TARIM 4.0 UYGULAMALARI VE TÜRK TARIMININ DÖNÜŞÜMÜ Emine Kılavuz, İlhan Erdem · NWSA Academic Journals Open access Oct 2019 39
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is History and Cultural Heritage research done?

The largest centres of History and Cultural Heritage research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Yerevan (Armenia) and Baku (Azerbaijan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Yerevan, Nakhchivan and Mardin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 251 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 211 works
  3. 3 YerevanArmenia 194 works
  4. 4 BakuAzerbaijan 84 works
  5. 5 KonyaTürkiye 69 works
  6. 6 IzmirTürkiye 53 works
  7. 7 ErzurumTürkiye 44 works
  8. 8 EskişehirTürkiye 39 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 37 works
  10. 10 WeatherfordUnited States 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. YerevanAM · 193.8 works180×
  2. NakhchivanAZ · 20.1 works115×
  3. MardinTR · 20.3 works98×
  4. VanTR · 34.9 works68×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in History and Cultural Heritage than the world average.

See History and Cultural Heritage on the map

Where is the best place to study History and Cultural Heritage?

Among universities, judged by research, Atatürk University, Selçuk University and Van Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi 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.

0%10%20%mean 16.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Atatürk UniversitySelçuk UniversityVan Yüzüncü Yıl Üniv…Ankara Hacı Bayram V…
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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.

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
1Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 69.219.3%52.6×39 +96.7%
2Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 64.718.0%60.1×40 +53.2%
3Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 61.116.3%76.0×35 +96.7%
4Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 57.710.7%157.6×47 +147.9%
5Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 57.413.9%99.1×34 +21.7%
6Marmara UniversityTürkiye 56.915.6%38.5×29 +23.4%
7Kütahya Dumlupınar ÜniversitesiTürkiye 54.218.7%70.0×18 +152.0%
8Mustafa Kemal UniversityTürkiye 52.921.5%60.1×14 +176.0%
9Bilecik Şeyh Edebali ÜniversitesiTürkiye 52.622.4%44.3×9 +93.5%
10Weatherford CollegeUnited States 52.49.3%12.8×36 +618.8%

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 History and Cultural Heritage, country by country

Is History and Cultural Heritage research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 88% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are History and Cultural Heritage.

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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 History and Cultural Heritage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0094% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%History and Cultural Heritage0.011% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of History and Cultural Heritage 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%History and Cultural Heritage9.9% in 202520102020

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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