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Linguistics and Cultural Studies

Linguistics and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 covers a wide range of topics in the field of Turkic linguistics, including language contact, morphology, historical phonology, oral epics, syntax, etymology, typology, and manuscriptology. It explores the linguistic diversity and historical development of Turkic languages.

  • Turkic
  • linguistics
  • language contact
  • morphology
  • historical phonology
  • oral epics
  • syntax
  • etymology
  • typology
  • manuscriptology
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+47%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
58% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistics and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Linguistics and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, Türkiye and Russia publish the most (2.9k and 594 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 2.9k works
  2. 2 Russia 594 works
  3. 3 United States 379 works
  4. 4 China 274 works
  5. 5 Azerbaijan 200 works
  6. 6 Uzbekistan 176 works
  7. 7 Kazakhstan 168 works
  8. 8 Germany 137 works
  9. 9 Iraq 121 works
  10. 10 Mongolia 94 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.

Türkiye: 57.8%Russia: 11.7%United States: 7.5%China: 5.4%6 others listed: 17.7%58%largest
Türkiye2,934 · 57.8%Russia594 · 11.7%United States379 · 7.5%China274 · 5.4%6 others listed898 · 17.7%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistics and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Linguistics and Cultural Studies research, followed by Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi and Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 238 works
  2. 2 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 95 works
  3. 3 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 87 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 68 works
  5. 5 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 67 works
  6. 6 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 63 works
  7. 7 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 54 works
  8. 8 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 51 works
  9. 9 North-Eastern Federal UniversityRussia 48 works
  10. 10 Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli UniversityTürkiye 48 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistics and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistics and Cultural Studies include Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Linguistics and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Linguistics and Cultural Studies is "Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books" (Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al., 2010), with 3,145 citations. Next come "The Phonology of English as an International Language" (1,797) and "Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family" (819).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science Open access 16 Dec 2010 3,145
2 The Phonology of English as an International Language Judy B. Gilbert, John M. Levis, Jennifer A. Jenkins · TESOL Quarterly 2001 1,797
3 Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family Remco Bouckaert, Philippe Lemey, Michael J Dunn et al. · Science Open access 23 Aug 2012 819
4 Two Functional Categories in Noun Phrases: Evidence from Modern Hebrew Elizabeth Ritter Book chapter 26 Dec 1991 701
5 The Korean language Ho‐min Sohn · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access 1999 684
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Linguistics and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Linguistics and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Moscow (Russia) and Baku (Azerbaijan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ardahan, Yakutsk and Turkestan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 508 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 345 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 152 works
  4. 4 BakuAzerbaijan 152 works
  5. 5 IzmirTürkiye 95 works
  6. 6 UlaanbaatarMongolia 94 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 93 works
  8. 8 YakutskRussia 88 works
  9. 9 KonyaTürkiye 83 works
  10. 10 AlmatyKazakhstan 78 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ArdahanTR · 26.4 works108×
  2. YakutskRU · 88.3 works104×
  3. TurkestanKZ · 24.2 works102×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistics and Cultural Studies than the world average.

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

Among universities, judged by research, Hacettepe University, Kyrgyz-Türkish Manas Üniversity and Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli 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%20%40%mean 15.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Samsun UniversityHacettepe UniversityKyrgyz-Türkish Manas…Ankara Hacı Bayram V…
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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
1Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 68.317.2%22.9×63 +34.6%
2Kyrgyz-Türkish Manas ÜniversityKyrgyzstan 65.314.6%190.8×36 +77.9%
3Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 64.312.1%112.8×87 +126.7%
4Samsun UniversityTürkiye 64.331.2%24.7×10 +203.5%
5Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 63.211.3%106.0×95 +6.4%
6Ankara UniversityTürkiye 61.39.8%27.9×67 +35.2%
7Mardin Artuklu UniversityTürkiye 61.117.6%79.1×37 +138.6%
8Van Yüzüncü Yıl ÜniversitesiTürkiye 61.016.7%31.2×37 +115.3%
9Weatherford CollegeUnited States 59.68.0%9.4×68 +257.5%
10Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 59.614.5%26.9×46 +62.8%

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 Linguistics and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Linguistics and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 47% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Linguistics 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 Linguistics and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Linguistics and Cultural Studies0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistics 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%Linguistics and Cultural Studies10.0% 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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