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Linguistic and Cultural Studies

Linguistic and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 987 research works in it since 1951. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to plant names, ethnobotany, and botanical history. It includes discussions on common names, scientific names, eponyms, synonyms, and the etymology of plant names. The cluster also explores the cultural significance of plants, their use in traditional medicine, and the conservation of biodiversity linked to traditional knowledge.

  • Plant Names
  • Ethnobotany
  • Eponyms
  • Synonyms
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Cultural Practices
  • Botanical History
  • Taxonomy
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Traditional Knowledge
Research works
987
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
105
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+83%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
57% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistic and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Linguistic and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, Poland and Germany publish the most (167 and 28 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 167 works
  2. 2 Germany 28 works
  3. 3 United States 26 works
  4. 4 Russia 23 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 10 works
  6. 6 Czechia 9 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 8 works
  8. 8 Italy 7 works
  9. 9 Armenia 7 works
  10. 10 India 7 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.

Poland: 57.1%Germany: 9.5%United States: 9.0%Russia: 7.9%6 others listed: 16.6%57%largest
Poland167 · 57.1%Germany28 · 9.5%United States26 · 9.0%Russia23 · 7.9%6 others listed49 · 16.6%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistic and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Linguistic and Cultural Studies research, followed by Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 19 works
  2. 2 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 16 works
  3. 3 University of WarsawPoland 15 works
  4. 4 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 14 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 11 works
  6. 6 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 9 works
  7. 7 University of GdańskPoland 7 works
  8. 8 Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 7 works
  9. 9 Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 6 works
  10. 10 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistic and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistic and Cultural Studies include Robert A. Holt and Rudolf Schmid.

  1. 1 Robert A. Holt Canada 156k citations
  2. 2 Rudolf Schmid United States 46k 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 Linguistic and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Linguistic and Cultural Studies is "Wild vascular plants gathered for consumption in the Polish countryside: a review" (Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj, Wojciech M Szymański, 2007), with 478 citations. Next come "A relic of medieval folklore: Corpus Christi Octave herbal wreaths in Poland and their relationship with the local pharmacopoeia" (362) and "The importance of a border: Medical, veterinary, and wild food ethnobotany of the Hutsuls living on the Romanian and Ukrainian sides of Bukovina" (309).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Wild vascular plants gathered for consumption in the Polish countryside: a review Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj, Wojciech M Szymański · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Open access 15 Apr 2007 478
2 A relic of medieval folklore: Corpus Christi Octave herbal wreaths in Poland and their relationship with the local pharmacopoeia Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj · Journal of Ethnopharmacology 7 May 2012 362
3 The importance of a border: Medical, veterinary, and wild food ethnobotany of the Hutsuls living on the Romanian and Ukrainian sides of Bukovina Renata Söukand, Andréa Pieroni · Journal of Ethnopharmacology Open access 8 Mar 2016 309
4 Historical ethnobotanical review of medicinal plants used to treat children diseases in Romania (1860s–1970s) Mădălina Petran, Dorin Dragoș, Marilena Gîlcă · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Open access 24 Mar 2020 241
5 Wild edible plants of Belarus: from Rostafiński’s questionnaire of 1883 to the present Łukasz Jakub Łuczaj, Piotr Köhler, Ewa Pirożnikow et al. · Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Open access 4 Apr 2013 240
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Where is Linguistic and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Linguistic and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krakow and Warsaw.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 37 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 35 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 15 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 14 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 11 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 8 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 8 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 7 works
  9. 9 ToruńPoland 7 works
  10. 10 YerevanArmenia 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrakowPL · 34.6 works58×
  2. WarsawPL · 37.2 works33×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistic and Cultural Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Linguistic and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Łódź, Jagiellonian University and Maria Curie-Skłodowska University 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%5%10%mean 8.66%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ŁódźJagiellonian Univers…University of WarsawMaria Curie-Skłodows…
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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
1University of ŁódźPoland 60.511.4%114.0×10 +90.9%
2Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 50.29.7%73.2×16 +161.2%
3Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 49.86.5%145.1×9 +210.1%
4University of WarsawPoland 47.56.8%91.2×15 +111.4%
5Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 42.18.9%105.3×14 +142.2%

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 Linguistic and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Linguistic and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 83% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Linguistic and Cultural Studies.

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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 Linguistic and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00094% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Linguistic and Cultural Studies0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistic and Cultural 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%Linguistic and Cultural Studies9.4% in 20252020

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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