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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. 10.6% 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%
189
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+75%
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Which countries lead Humanities and Social Sciences research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (112 and 65 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Germany 112 works
  2. 2 United States 65 works
  3. 3 France 42 works
  4. 4 Russia 41 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 37 works
  6. 6 China 21 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 17 works
  8. 8 Spain 16 works
  9. 9 Italy 16 works
  10. 10 Canada 12 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: 29.5%United States: 17.1%France: 11.1%Russia: 10.8%6 others listed: 31.4%30%largest
Germany112 · 29.5%United States65 · 17.1%France42 · 11.1%Russia41 · 10.8%6 others listed119 · 31.4%

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

Which institutions lead Humanities and Social Sciences research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Freie Universität Berlin publishes the most Humanities and Social Sciences research, followed by Université catholique de l'ouest and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 19 works
  2. 2 Université catholique de l'ouestFrance 12 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 5 works
  5. 5 University of ErfurtGermany 4 works
  6. 6 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 4 works
  7. 7 Charles UniversityCzechia 3 works
  8. 8 University of ZagrebCroatia 3 works
  9. 9 University of TübingenGermany 3 works
  10. 10 University of BonnGermany 3 works

Where is Humanities and Social Sciences research done?

The largest centres of Humanities and Social Sciences research in 2022–2025 are Berlin (Germany), Moscow (Russia), Angers (France) and Munich (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Berlin.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Berlin Germany 25 works
  2. 2 Moscow Russia 18 works
  3. 3 Angers France 12 works
  4. 4 Munich Germany 10 works
  5. 5 Paris France 10 works
  6. 6 Prague Czechia 9 works
  7. 7 London United Kingdom 8 works
  8. 8 Madrid Spain 7 works
  9. 9 Kyiv Ukraine 7 works
  10. 10 Beijing China 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BerlinDE · 25.5 works16×
← 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 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.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 66.019.7%91.9×19 —
2 Université catholique de l'ouestFrance 6.08.5%825.9×12 —

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 Humanities and Social Sciences research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 75% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Humanities and Social Sciences.

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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.