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Joseph Conrad and Literature

Joseph Conrad and Literature is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 4k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the themes of literary modernism, cultural critique, and postcolonial criticism through the works of authors like Joseph Conrad. It delves into topics such as colonialism, narrative analysis, imperialism, gender representation, and the psychological impact of historical events.

  • Joseph Conrad
  • Literary Modernism
  • Cultural Critique
  • Colonialism
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Imperialism
  • Psychological Wounds
  • Evolution of Stories
  • Gender Representation
  • Postcolonial Criticism
Research works
4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
402
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Joseph Conrad and Literature

Which countries lead Joseph Conrad and Literature research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (142 and 97 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 142 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 97 works
  3. 3 China 36 works
  4. 4 India 36 works
  5. 5 Poland 33 works
  6. 6 Italy 25 works
  7. 7 France 24 works
  8. 8 Germany 21 works
  9. 9 Romania 21 works
  10. 10 Canada 19 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: 31.3%United Kingdom: 21.4%China: 8.0%India: 7.9%6 others listed: 31.4%31%largest
United States142 · 31.3%United Kingdom97 · 21.4%China36 · 8.0%India36 · 7.9%6 others listed143 · 31.4%

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

Which institutions lead Joseph Conrad and Literature research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Sussex publishes the most Joseph Conrad and Literature research, followed by University of Toronto and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of SussexUnited Kingdom 9 works
  2. 2 University of TorontoCanada 8 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 7 works
  4. 4 Leibniz University HannoverGermany 6 works
  5. 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 6 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 5 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  8. 8 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 5 works
  9. 9 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 5 works
  10. 10 Akademia Ignatianum w KrakowiePoland 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Joseph Conrad and Literature?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Joseph Conrad and Literature include John Gilles Bartlett.

  1. 1 John Gilles Bartlett United States 88k 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 Joseph Conrad and Literature?

The most cited paper in Joseph Conrad and Literature is "The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth Century Fiction" (Carol Maloney, Rosemary Marangoly George, 1999), with 429 citations. Next come "HÆMOPHILIA CARRIERS" (413) and "Conrad in the computer: examples of quantitative stylistic methods" (239).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations and Twentieth Century Fiction Carol Maloney, Rosemary Marangoly George · MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 1999 429
2 HÆMOPHILIA CARRIERS C.R.M. Prentice, C.D. Forbes · The Lancet Aug 1974 413
3 Conrad in the computer: examples of quantitative stylistic methods Michael Stubbs · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics 11 Jan 2005 239
4 Towards A Chronology of Plutarch's Works Christopher P. Jones · The Journal of Roman Studies Nov 1966 220
5 "MENSTRUAL TOXIN" M.R.V. Punjani · The Lancet Jul 1974 204
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Where is Joseph Conrad and Literature research done?

The largest centres of Joseph Conrad and Literature research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Brighton (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  2. 2 BrightonUnited Kingdom 9 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 9 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 OxfordUnited Kingdom 8 works
  6. 6 KrakowPoland 7 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 7 works
  8. 8 BucharestRomania 7 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 7 works
  10. 10 HanoverGermany 6 works
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Where is the best place to study Joseph Conrad and Literature?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto and University of Sussex 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
1University of TorontoCanada 60.01.3%7.0×8 +290.9%
2University of SussexUnited Kingdom 50.00.0%65.1×9 +243.7%

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 Joseph Conrad and Literature, country by country

Is Joseph Conrad and Literature research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Joseph Conrad and Literature as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0024% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Joseph Conrad and Literature 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.

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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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