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Humanities and Social Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 1.8k research works in it since 1952. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the ethical and political consequences of social acceleration in a high-speed society, focusing on the impact on democracy, temporality, globalization, information technology, and cultural and philosophical anthropology.

  • Social Acceleration
  • Ethical Consequences
  • Political Consequences
  • High-Speed Society
  • Democracy
  • Temporality
  • Globalization
  • Information Technology
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Philosophical Anthropology
Research works
1.8k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
183
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+68%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Humanities and Social Sciences

Which countries lead Humanities and Social Sciences research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (147 and 97 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 147 works
  2. 2 United States 97 works
  3. 3 Russia 63 works
  4. 4 France 49 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 46 works
  6. 6 China 34 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 26 works
  8. 8 Italy 25 works
  9. 9 Spain 22 works
  10. 10 Croatia 16 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: 28.0%United States: 18.5%Russia: 12.0%France: 9.3%6 others listed: 32.1%28%largest
Germany147 · 28.0%United States97 · 18.5%Russia63 · 12.0%France49 · 9.3%6 others listed169 · 32.1%

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

Which institutions lead Humanities and Social Sciences research?

By volume in 2022-now, Freie Universität Berlin publishes the most Humanities and Social Sciences research, followed by Université catholique de l'ouest and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 20 works
  2. 2 Université catholique de l'ouestFrance 12 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 9 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 8 works
  5. 5 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  7. 7 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 6 works
  8. 8 Charles UniversityCzechia 5 works
  9. 9 University of BonnGermany 5 works
  10. 10 University of ErfurtGermany 5 works

What are the most cited papers in Humanities and Social Sciences?

The most cited paper in Humanities and Social Sciences is "Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self" (Adeline Masquelier, 1997), with 594 citations. Next come "The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman: Resilience and the Psychological Turn in Neoliberalism" (383) and "PRESENCE" (228).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self Adeline Masquelier · American Ethnologist Nov 1997 594
2 The Amazing Bounce-Backable Woman: Resilience and the Psychological Turn in Neoliberalism Rosalind Gill, Shani Orgad · Sociological Research Online Open access 30 Apr 2018 383
3 PRESENCE Eelco Runia · History and Theory Feb 2006 228
4 The dance of life: The other dimension of time Gary R. Weaver · International Journal of Intercultural Relations 1984 188
5 Ataraxia Gisela Striker · The Monist 1990 137
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Humanities and Social Sciences research done?

The largest centres of Humanities and Social Sciences research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Munich (Germany) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Berlin.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 27 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 24 works
  3. 3 MunichGermany 18 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 12 works
  5. 5 AngersFrance 12 works
  6. 6 PragueCzechia 11 works
  7. 7 ZagrebCroatia 10 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 10 works
  9. 9 KyivUkraine 10 works
  10. 10 LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BerlinDE · 27.3 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Humanities and Social Sciences than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Humanities and Social Sciences?

Among universities, judged by research, Freie Universität Berlin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Université catholique de l'ouest 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.

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
1Freie Universität BerlinGermany 87.713.2%70.1×20 +456.3%
2Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 41.28.8%14.0×8 +274.1%
3Université catholique de l'ouestFrance 17.42.4%676.2×12 -

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 Humanities and Social Sciences, country by country

Is Humanities and Social Sciences research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 68% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Humanities and Social Sciences.

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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 Humanities and Social Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0021% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Humanities and Social Sciences 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%Humanities and Social Sciences10.7% 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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