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Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 77k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of religion, culture, and social identity, with a focus on Islam, Malay language and literature, Sharia law, and the historical and philosophical aspects of science. It delves into the influence of social factors on religious practices and the development of religious and cultural identities.

  • Islam
  • Culture
  • Social Influence
  • Literature
  • Sharia Law
  • Ethnicity
  • Malay Language
  • Philosophy
  • Science
  • History
Research works
77k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+71%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Which countries lead Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Ukraine publish the most (7.3k and 4.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 7.3k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 4.9k works
  3. 3 Japan 2.6k works
  4. 4 Indonesia 2.1k works
  5. 5 Russia 1.9k works
  6. 6 Iraq 1.6k works
  7. 7 ?? 1.5k works
  8. 8 Malaysia 1.3k works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 1.2k works
  10. 10 Brazil 1.1k 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: 28.6%Ukraine: 19.1%Japan: 10.3%Indonesia: 8.3%6 others listed: 33.8%29%largest
United States7,321 · 28.6%Ukraine4,888 · 19.1%Japan2,633 · 10.3%Indonesia2,135 · 8.3%6 others listed8,650 · 33.8%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Weatherford College publishes the most Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research, followed by Human Growth Foundation and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 3.4k works
  2. 2 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 2.3k works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 1.1k works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 477 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 411 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 359 works
  7. 7 University of TikritIraq 343 works
  8. 8 Bio-Medical Science (South Korea)South Korea 290 works
  9. 9 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de TunisieTunisia 265 works
  10. 10 State University "Kyiv Aviation Institute"Ukraine 260 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies include David Moher, Douglas G. Altman and Zhong Lin Wang.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  3. 3 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  4. 4 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  5. 5 Shizuo Akira Japan 342k citations
  6. 6 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  7. 7 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  8. 8 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k 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, Cultural, and Literary Studies?

The most cited paper in Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies is "What's In A Name? Malay Seals As Onomastic Sources" (Annabel Teh Gallop, 2018), with 1,506 citations. Next come "Crouching as an index of fear." (1,094) and "the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi" (478).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 What's In A Name? Malay Seals As Onomastic Sources Annabel Teh Gallop · Malay Literature Open access Jun 2018 1,506
2 Crouching as an index of fear. Robert J. Blanchard, D. Caroline Blanchard · Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology 1969 1,094
3 the substance of kinship and the heat of the hearth: feeding, personhood, and relatedness among Malays in Pulau Langkawi Janet Carsten · American Ethnologist May 1995 478
4 ENZYMATIC CYCLING Oliver H. Lowry, Janet V. Passonneau · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1972 454
5 Critical Issues in Islamic Education Studies: Rethinking Islamic and Western Liberal Secular Values of Education Abdullah Şahin · Religions Open access 30 Oct 2018 336
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Where is Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research done?

The largest centres of Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research in 2022-now are Weatherford (United States), New York (United States), Kyiv (Ukraine) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kuwait City, Kamianets-Podilskyi and Tripoli.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WeatherfordUnited States 3.4k works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 2.4k works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 1.5k works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 1.1k works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 971 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 564 works
  7. 7 TashkentUzbekistan 549 works
  8. 8 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 538 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 482 works
  10. 10 KharkivUkraine 409 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kuwait City257.4 works162×
  2. Kamianets-Podilskyi32.1 works157×
  3. Tripoli202.3 works155×
  4. Khmelnytskyi189.2 works140×
  5. Lviv62.7 works105×
  6. Odesa42.2 works102×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Universitas Semarang, Weatherford College and Sultan Idris Education University 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.

0%20%40%60%mean 23.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas SemarangVinnytsia National A…Sultan Idris Educati…Weatherford College
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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
1Universitas SemarangIndonesia 67.054.2%10.4×43 +82.0%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 57.26.6%88.4×3,420 +92.5%
3Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 55.820.8%15.1×89 +23.3%
4Vinnytsia National Agrarian UniversityUkraine 54.630.3%22.3×41 +2122.4%
5Ivan Ziaziun Institute of Pedagogical Education and Adult Education of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine 54.431.7%151.6×24 +34.7%
6Universidade de São PauloBrazil 53.07.9%18.2×1,074 +353.7%
7National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 52.119.8%10.5×200 -25.4%
8Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 51.316.1%4.8×105 +28.1%
9Astrakhan Tatischev State UniversityRussia 50.932.4%18.3×16 +202.2%
10International Islamic University MalaysiaMalaysia 50.413.6%13.4×100 +11.3%

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 Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies, country by country

Is Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 71% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary 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, Cultural, and Literary Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.14% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies0.19% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary 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, Cultural, and Literary Studies9.2% 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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