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Latin American Literature Analysis

Latin American Literature Analysis is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 4.6k research works in it since 1953. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores various aspects of Latin American literature, including the fantastic genre, autofiction, microrrelato, cultural identity, gender conflicts, postcolonialism, narrative theory, literary criticism, and social movements. The papers delve into the rich and diverse literary traditions of Latin America and analyze the intersection of literature with cultural, social, and political contexts.

  • Latin American literature
  • fantastic genre
  • autofiction
  • microrrelato
  • cultural identity
  • gender conflicts
  • postcolonialism
  • narrative theory
  • literary criticism
  • social movements
Research works
4.6k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
466
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Latin American Literature Analysis

Which countries lead Latin American Literature Analysis research?

By volume, Spain and Argentina publish the most (300 and 170 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 300 works
  2. 2 Argentina 170 works
  3. 3 Mexico 158 works
  4. 4 Brazil 129 works
  5. 5 United States 91 works
  6. 6 France 63 works
  7. 7 Peru 63 works
  8. 8 Chile 54 works
  9. 9 Colombia 45 works
  10. 10 Italy 42 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.

Spain: 26.9%Argentina: 15.2%Mexico: 14.1%Brazil: 11.6%6 others listed: 32.2%27%largest
Spain300 · 26.9%Argentina170 · 15.2%Mexico158 · 14.1%Brazil129 · 11.6%6 others listed359 · 32.2%

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

Which institutions lead Latin American Literature Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Buenos Aires publishes the most Latin American Literature Analysis research, followed by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 37 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 28 works
  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 28 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 25 works
  5. 5 National University of San MarcosPeru 22 works
  6. 6 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 15 works
  7. 7 Universidad de GranadaSpain 15 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 15 works
  9. 9 Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 12 works
  10. 10 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Latin American Literature Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Latin American Literature Analysis include A. Castro.

  1. 1 A. Castro France 59k 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 Literature Analysis?

The most cited paper in Latin American Literature Analysis is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (Philip N. Swanson, 2010), with 166 citations. Next come "Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's “Inquest in the Andes” Reexamined" (151) and "Historia de la literatura argentina" (110).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 One Hundred Years of Solitude Philip N. Swanson · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 21 Sep 2010 166
2 Peru In Deep Trouble: Mario Vargas Llosa's “Inquest in the Andes” Reexamined Enrique Mayer · Cultural Anthropology Open access Nov 1991 151
3 Historia de la literatura argentina Edward Glaser · Hispanic American Historical Review Open access Feb 1960 110
4 Los señores presidentes y los guerrilleros: The New and the Old Guatemalan Novel (1976-1982) Seymour Menton · Latin American Research Review Open access 1984 66
5 Towards A Bibliography of Latin American Short Story Anthologies Jerald Foster · Latin American Research Review Open access 1977 65
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Latin American Literature Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Latin American Literature Analysis research in 2022-now are Buenos Aires (Argentina), Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Lima (Peru). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Buenos Aires.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Buenos AiresArgentina 78 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 67 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 58 works
  4. 4 LimaPeru 53 works
  5. 5 SantiagoChile 29 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  7. 7 BarcelonaSpain 19 works
  8. 8 SalamancaSpain 17 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 16 works
  10. 10 La PlataArgentina 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Buenos AiresAR · 78.5 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Latin American Literature Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Latin American Literature Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Murcia, Universidad de Alcalá and Universidad de Granada 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%20%40%mean 15.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de MurciaUniversidad de AlcaláUniversidad de GranadaUniversidad Complute…
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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.

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
1Universidad de MurciaSpain 63.432.4%28.1×10 +5.3%
2Universidad de AlcaláSpain 62.519.4%38.1×11 +79.2%
3Universidad de GranadaSpain 59.516.7%24.4×15 +48.4%
4Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 58.99.5%28.4×28 +63.9%
5Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 53.711.1%81.0×36 -24.2%
6Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 53.310.4%22.5×25 +49.5%
7Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 52.815.3%14.3×10 +14.3%
8Universidad de SalamancaSpain 51.610.2%40.1×16 +72.0%
9Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 44.911.4%11.5×10 +100.0%
10Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 44.116.3%13.7×9 +36.6%

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 Latin American Literature Analysis, country by country

Is Latin American Literature Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Latin American Literature Analysis.

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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 Literature Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Latin American Literature Analysis0.0070% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Latin American Literature Analysis 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 Literature Analysis9.7% 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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