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Latin American and Latino Studies

Latin American and Latino Studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 16k 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 interdisciplinary study of Latino culture, identity, and experiences in the United States, with a focus on topics such as colonialism, literature, gender, migration, and community. It delves into the complexities of Latino identity and the impact of historical and social factors on the formation of Latino communities in America.

  • Latino
  • Chicano
  • Identity
  • Culture
  • Gender
  • Colonialism
  • Literature
  • Migration
  • Race
  • Community
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
66% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Latin American and Latino Studies

Which countries lead Latin American and Latino Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.3k and 129 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 129 works
  3. 3 Mexico 110 works
  4. 4 Spain 101 works
  5. 5 Brazil 83 works
  6. 6 Canada 74 works
  7. 7 France 53 works
  8. 8 India 42 works
  9. 9 Argentina 41 works
  10. 10 Germany 38 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: 65.7%United Kingdom: 6.6%Mexico: 5.6%Spain: 5.1%6 others listed: 17.0%66%largest
United States1,287 · 65.7%United Kingdom129 · 6.6%Mexico110 · 5.6%Spain101 · 5.1%6 others listed332 · 17.0%

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

Which institutions lead Latin American and Latino Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, The University of Texas at Austin publishes the most Latin American and Latino Studies research, followed by City University of New York and University of California, Los Angeles.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 24 works
  2. 2 City University of New YorkUnited States 23 works
  3. 3 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 19 works
  5. 5 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 15 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 15 works
  8. 8 New York UniversityUnited States 15 works
  9. 9 Texas A&M University SystemUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 Indiana UniversityUnited States 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Latin American and Latino Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Latin American and Latino Studies include Dan J. Stein, Michel Foucault and Michael Phillips.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Michael Phillips Australia 199k citations
  4. 4 John C. Reed United States 135k citations
  5. 5 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k 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 Latin American and Latino Studies?

The most cited paper in Latin American and Latino Studies is "Epistemology of the Closet" (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1990), with 3,084 citations. Next come "Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism" (1,133) and "Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality" (1,125).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Epistemology of the Closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 1990 3,084
2 Mexican Migration and the Social Space of Postmodernism Roger Rouse · Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies Mar 1991 1,133
3 Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality Ramón Grosfoguel · TRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World Open access 13 May 2011 1,125
4 Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research Dolores Delgado Bernal · Harvard Educational Review Dec 1998 1,004
5 The Californian ideology Richard Barbrook, R. Andrew Cameron · Science as Culture 1996 970
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Where is Latin American and Latino Studies research done?

The largest centres of Latin American and Latino Studies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Los Angeles (United States), Mexico City (Mexico) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 65 works
  2. 2 Los AngelesUnited States 48 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 46 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 29 works
  6. 6 AustinUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 ChicagoUnited States 27 works
  8. 8 TorontoCanada 23 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 20 works
  10. 10 San AntonioUnited States 19 works
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Where is the best place to study Latin American and Latino Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Texas at Austin, Arizona State University and City University of New York score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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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.

Citation 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
1The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 73.812.9%14.5×24 +3.7%
2Arizona State UniversityUnited States 69.017.3%12.8×17 -22.6%
3City University of New YorkUnited States 66.912.6%20.2×22 -23.8%
4University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 66.620.3%6.2×12 +142.3%
5University of HoustonUnited States 62.219.2%15.2×10 +44.0%
6University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 61.914.6%5.9×10 -0.0%
7University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States 61.516.6%17.1×11 +41.3%
8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 60.819.3%5.7×11 -2.0%
9University of TorontoCanada 58.06.7%3.7×15 +99.2%
10University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 57.56.5%8.3×19 +7.6%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Latin American and Latino Studies, country by country

Is Latin American and Latino Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024.

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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 Latin American and Latino Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Latin American and Latino Studies0.0095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Latin American and Latino 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%Latin American and Latino Studies10.1% 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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