Latin American Literature Studies

Latin American Literature Studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 12k 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 cultural representation of drug trafficking, violence, and narcoculture in Latin American literature. It delves into the themes of gender, neoliberalism, urban culture, and the impact of drug trafficking on society. The papers also analyze testimonies, the portrayal of violence, and the intersection of literature with social and political issues.

Drug Trafficking
Cultural Representation
Latin American Literature
Narcoculture
Violence
Testimonio
Gender Studies
Neoliberalism
Urban Culture
Literary Criticism

Research works: 12k
In the world top 10%: 1.2k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -9%
Largest producer: United States

Latin American Literature Studies

Which countries lead Latin American Literature Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Spain publish the most (382 and 373 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 382 works
2 Spain 373 works
3 Argentina 361 works
4 Mexico 332 works
5 Chile 199 works
6 Brazil 189 works
7 France 123 works
8 Colombia 108 works
9 Peru 104 works
10 Italy 70 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 States382 · 17.0%Spain373 · 16.7%Argentina361 · 16.1%Mexico332 · 14.8%6 others listed792 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Latin American Literature Studies research?

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

By volume, 2022-now

1 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 82 works
2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 63 works
3 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 58 works
4 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 43 works
5 Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 40 works
6 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 38 works
7 National University of San MarcosPeru 32 works
8 Universidad Nacional de CórdobaArgentina 32 works
9 Universidad de Costa RicaCosta Rica 25 works
10 Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Latin American Literature Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Latin American Literature Studies include Michel Foucault.

1 Michel Foucault France 208k 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 Studies?

The most cited paper in Latin American Literature Studies is "Maddening States" (Begoña Aretxaga, 2003), with 595 citations. Next come "Unravelling Foucault’s ‘different spaces’" (306) and "Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America" (265).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Maddening States Begoña Aretxaga · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	Oct 2003	595
2	Unravelling Foucault’s ‘different spaces’ Peter W. Johnson · History of the Human Sciences	25 Oct 2006	306
3	Memory and Modernity: Popular Culture in Latin America Robert M. Levine · Hispanic American Historical Review	Nov 1992	265
4	Ruminations on Lo Sucio as a Latino Queer Analytic Deborah R. Vargas · American Quarterly	Sep 2014	240
5	One Hundred Years of Solitude Philip N. Swanson · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	21 Sep 2010	166

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Where is Latin American Literature Studies research done?

The largest centres of Latin American Literature Studies research in 2022-now are Buenos Aires (Argentina), Mexico City (Mexico), Santiago (Chile) and Madrid (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in La Plata, Córdoba and Valparaíso.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 Buenos AiresArgentina 162 works
2 Mexico CityMexico 126 works
3 SantiagoChile 118 works
4 MadridSpain 111 works
5 LimaPeru 85 works
6 BogotáColombia 52 works
7 La PlataArgentina 40 works
8 San JoséCosta Rica 37 works
9 CórdobaArgentina 32 works
10 São PauloBrazil 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

La PlataAR · 40.5 works59×
CórdobaAR · 32.5 works46×
ValparaísoCL · 23.1 works40×
San JoséCR · 37.0 works36×

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad Complutense de Madrid 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain	74.3	23.7%	9.9×	15	+27.6%
2	Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile	67.2	11.6%	55.7×	40	+36.8%
3	Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain	62.5	12.9%	21.2×	43	+74.4%
4	Universidad de SalamancaSpain	62.5	13.8%	28.2×	22	+23.9%
5	Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina	59.4	10.0%	87.8×	82	-35.9%
6	Alberto Hurtado UniversityChile	59.1	13.5%	77.2×	9	+7.2%
7	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico	57.8	10.4%	25.4×	58	+4.6%
8	University of ConcepciónChile	56.8	15.1%	51.0×	16	+6.4%
9	Universidad de GranadaSpain	56.1	16.1%	14.3×	19	-3.3%
10	Universidad de SevillaSpain	55.7	23.0%	10.1×	13	-19.6%
11	Universidad Internacional De La RiojaSpain	53.0	15.0%	40.2×	12	+206.7%
12	Universidad de MurciaSpain	50.1	17.1%	17.0×	12	+41.5%
13	Universidad de Costa RicaCosta Rica	48.5	10.0%	59.6×	25	+34.7%
14	Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoMexico	47.7	14.1%	55.4×	19	+99.4%
15	Adolfo Ibáñez UniversityChile	47.3	7.2%	88.4×	11	+21.3%
16	National University of San MarcosPeru	46.4	7.1%	56.5×	32	-4.0%
17	Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia	44.1	15.9%	15.0×	12	-31.0%
18	Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoChile	44.0	6.0%	57.3×	12	+63.1%
19	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain	43.6	13.5%	7.4×	13	-31.2%
20	Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina	43.4	6.6%	86.1×	38	-26.0%
21	University of the Basque CountrySpain	42.8	10.2%	8.1×	9	+6.1%
22	Universidad Autónoma MetropolitanaMexico	42.6	9.1%	52.9×	25	+7.4%
23	Universidad de GuanajuatoMexico	41.9	9.7%	33.8×	11	+12.8%
24	Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de PueblaMexico	40.6	11.0%	46.2×	17	-11.6%
25	University of ChileChile	40.0	7.0%	27.5×	22	-18.0%
26	Universidad Nacional de CórdobaArgentina	39.7	7.1%	78.7×	32	-37.8%
27	University of AlicanteSpain	39.6	9.9%	15.3×	10	+83.6%
28	Cornell UniversityUnited States	37.3	3.1%	4.7×	14	+94.6%
29	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil	36.7	12.4%	6.7×	11	+19.5%
30	Universidad de GuadalajaraMexico	36.2	9.1%	22.1×	15	-5.8%
31	Ibero American UniversityMexico	35.6	11.0%	76.1×	13	-19.5%
32	Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain	35.6	8.7%	8.6×	11	-47.2%
33	Universidad de ZaragozaSpain	35.6	11.6%	9.1×	9	-13.5%
34	Universidad de AntioquiaColombia	34.2	9.1%	18.3×	10	-40.3%
35	Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly	33.4	3.4%	31.5×	17	+31.9%
36	Universidad de Santiago de ChileChile	31.9	7.8%	28.5×	8	+11.2%
37	Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPeru	31.8	2.8%	43.5×	15	+200.2%
38	Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain	30.9	3.4%	29.2×	12	+112.8%
39	Universidad de LimaPeru	28.6	5.5%	86.4×	13	+120.0%
40	Universidad VeracruzanaMexico	28.5	4.3%	39.2×	17	+1.8%

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 Studies, country by country

Is Latin American Literature Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Latin American Literature Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

Fractional works of Latin American Literature 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.

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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Which countries lead Latin American Literature Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Latin American Literature Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Latin American Literature Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Latin American Literature Studies?

Where is Latin American Literature Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

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

Is Latin American Literature Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion