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Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies

Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 7k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the multifaceted impact of globalization on society and culture, encompassing topics such as the performance of citizenship, racial time, hindutva nationalism, queer world making, and the regulation of mothering in different contexts. It delves into the intersection of emotions, identity, and power dynamics within the framework of globalization, shedding light on the complexities of contemporary societal issues.

  • Globalization
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Race
  • Emotions
  • Nationalism
  • Colonialism
  • Feminism
  • Citizenship
  • Activism
Research works
7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
699
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+45%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies

Which countries lead Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (615 and 218 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 615 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 218 works
  3. 3 Canada 105 works
  4. 4 Australia 90 works
  5. 5 France 71 works
  6. 6 India 61 works
  7. 7 Germany 54 works
  8. 8 Finland 49 works
  9. 9 Italy 44 works
  10. 10 China 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.

United States: 45.8%United Kingdom: 16.2%Canada: 7.8%Australia: 6.7%6 others listed: 23.5%46%largest
United States615 · 45.8%United Kingdom218 · 16.2%Canada105 · 7.8%Australia90 · 6.7%6 others listed316 · 23.5%

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

Which institutions lead Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research, followed by University of Helsinki and Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu Mureș.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  2. 2 University of HelsinkiFinland 14 works
  3. 3 Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 14 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 12 works
  5. 5 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 10 works
  7. 7 Tampere UniversityFinland 10 works
  8. 8 York UniversityCanada 9 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 8 works
  10. 10 Monash UniversityAustralia 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies include George Davey Smith, Michel Foucault and Anselm L. Strauss.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  4. 4 Paul M. Thompson United States 196k 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 Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies?

The most cited paper in Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies is "Speaking. From Intention to Articulation" (David N. Caplan, 1990), with 4,063 citations. Next come "What is an emotion?" (2,204) and "Whose Side Are We On?" (1,570).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Speaking. From Intention to Articulation David N. Caplan · Trends in Neurosciences Aug 1990 4,063
2 What is an emotion? William T. James III Book chapter 10 May 2005 2,204
3 Whose Side Are We On? Howard S. Becker · Social Problems 1967 1,570
4 The Discomfort Index E. C. Thom · Weatherwise Apr 1959 1,522
5 Competing Against Time George Stalk, Thomas M. Hout · Research-Technology Management Mar 1990 1,276
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Where is Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Paris (France) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Helsinki.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 53 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 31 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 29 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 28 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 23 works
  6. 6 HelsinkiFinland 21 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  8. 8 SydneyAustralia 20 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 16 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. HelsinkiFI · 20.9 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Helsinki, Monash University and University of Oxford 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 11.175%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityUniversity of OxfordUniversity of HelsinkiUniversity of Toronto
above the meannear itbelow it

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 HelsinkiFinland 77.98.2%13.2×14 +453.1%
2Monash UniversityAustralia 63.326.5%5.5×8 +90.6%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 55.322.7%3.9×8 +73.9%
4University of TorontoCanada 53.76.5%3.9×12 +111.6%
5Tampere UniversityFinland 51.111.4%20.6×10 -
6University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 46.97.0%5.3×10 +73.2%
7York UniversityCanada 46.17.1%15.8×9 +101.9%
8Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 38.50.0%113.7×14 -30.0%

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 Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies, country by country

Is Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 45% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies.

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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 Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0049% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies0.0090% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies 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%Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies10.2% 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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