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Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence

Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores existentialist philosophy, with a focus on the works of Kierkegaard and other related literature, aesthetics, authenticity, self-forgiveness, suffering, ethics, and the intersection of existentialism with religion.

  • Kierkegaard
  • Existentialism
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Aesthetics
  • Authenticity
  • Self-forgiveness
  • Suffering
  • Ethics
  • Religion
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
375
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence

Which countries lead Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (128 and 50 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 128 works
  2. 2 Germany 50 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 49 works
  4. 4 Spain 36 works
  5. 5 Norway 34 works
  6. 6 Denmark 34 works
  7. 7 Italy 26 works
  8. 8 China 24 works
  9. 9 France 23 works
  10. 10 Brazil 18 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: 30.2%Germany: 11.9%United Kingdom: 11.5%Spain: 8.6%6 others listed: 37.7%30%largest
United States128 · 30.2%Germany50 · 11.9%United Kingdom49 · 11.5%Spain36 · 8.6%6 others listed159 · 37.7%

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

Which institutions lead Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Copenhagen publishes the most Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research, followed by Vestergaard (Switzerland) and Aarhus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of CopenhagenDenmark 11 works
  2. 2 Vestergaard (Switzerland)Switzerland 9 works
  3. 3 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 8 works
  4. 4 Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway 7 works
  5. 5 Centre for the Study of Culture and SocietyIndia 6 works
  6. 6 Kyiv National University of Culture and ArtsUkraine 6 works
  7. 7 University of OsloNorway 5 works
  8. 8 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 5 works
  9. 9 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 5 works
  10. 10 Slovak Academy of SciencesSlovakia 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence include Judith Butler and Sigmund Freud.

  1. 1 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  2. 2 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k 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 Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence?

The most cited paper in Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence is "Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence" (Carrie Heeter, 1992), with 1,355 citations. Next come "The Narrative Quality of Experience" (470) and "Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic" (376).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence Carrie Heeter · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality 1992 1,355
2 The Narrative Quality of Experience Stephen Crites · Journal of the American Academy of Religion 1971 470
3 Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic Robert L. Perkins, Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Robert Hullot-Kentor · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1990 376
4 The engine of reason, the seat of the soul Per Ebbe Roland · Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy Oct 1996 257
5 Distanciation in Ricoeur's theory of interpretation: narrations in a study of life experiences of living with chronic illness and home mechanical ventilation Pia Dreyer, Birthe D. Pedersen · Nursing Inquiry 10 Feb 2009 196
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Where is Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research done?

The largest centres of Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research in 2022-now are Copenhagen (Denmark), Oslo (Norway), London (United Kingdom) and Madrid (Spain).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 CopenhagenDenmark 18 works
  2. 2 OsloNorway 17 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 11 works
  4. 4 MadridSpain 10 works
  5. 5 BerlinGermany 10 works
  6. 6 LausanneSwitzerland 9 works
  7. 7 TrondheimNorway 8 works
  8. 8 AarhusDenmark 8 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 8 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 7 works
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Where is the best place to study Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Copenhagen 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 CopenhagenDenmark 8.63.6%18.5×11 +14.2%

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 Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence, country by country

Is Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0025% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Kierkegaardian Philosophy and Influence 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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