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Literature and Culture Studies

Literature and Culture Studies is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 7.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of the flâneur in nineteenth-century urban culture, examining its manifestations in literature, sociology, gender studies, and the construction of public space and cultural identity. It delves into the role of the flâneur as a symbol of modernity and its implications for social history and literary journalism.

  • Flâneur
  • Urban Culture
  • Nineteenth-Century
  • Literature
  • Sociology
  • Gender
  • Public Space
  • Cultural Identity
  • Literary Journalism
  • Social History
Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
794
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
62% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Literature and Culture Studies

Which countries lead Literature and Culture Studies research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (901 and 134 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 901 works
  2. 2 United States 134 works
  3. 3 Canada 111 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 67 works
  5. 5 ?? 57 works
  6. 6 Belgium 56 works
  7. 7 Germany 38 works
  8. 8 Italy 33 works
  9. 9 Brazil 33 works
  10. 10 Spain 28 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.

France: 61.8%United States: 9.2%Canada: 7.6%United Kingdom: 4.6%6 others listed: 16.8%62%largest
France901 · 61.8%United States134 · 9.2%Canada111 · 7.6%United Kingdom67 · 4.6%6 others listed245 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Literature and Culture Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Literature and Culture Studies research, followed by Université de Lyon and Sorbonne Université.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 179 works
  2. 2 Université de LyonFrance 37 works
  3. 3 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 30 works
  4. 4 Université de LorraineFrance 30 works
  5. 5 Université Rennes 2France 29 works
  6. 6 Université Paris NanterreFrance 27 works
  7. 7 Université de StrasbourgFrance 27 works
  8. 8 Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance 26 works
  9. 9 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 25 works
  10. 10 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Literature and Culture Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Literature and Culture Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Claude Leroy and D. G. Charlton.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Claude Leroy Canada 132k citations
  3. 3 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  5. 5 Albert V. Smith United States 116k citations
  6. 6 David Hume Australia 107k 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 Literature and Culture Studies?

The most cited paper in Literature and Culture Studies is "Popular science periodicals in Paris and London: The emergence of a low scientific culture, 1820–1875" (Susan Sheets-Pyenson, 1985), with 158 citations. Next come "The literary field between the state and the market" (150) and "The Flâneur, the City and Virtual Public Life" (146).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Popular science periodicals in Paris and London: The emergence of a low scientific culture, 1820–1875 Susan Sheets-Pyenson · Annals of Science Nov 1985 158
2 The literary field between the state and the market Gisèle Sapiro · Poetics Oct 2003 150
3 The Flâneur, the City and Virtual Public Life Mike Featherstone · Urban Studies May 1998 146
4 French Historical Studies Judith Wishnia · International Labor and Working-Class History Open access 1984 135
5 The metamorphosis of modes of consecration in the literary field: Academies, literary prizes, festivals Gisèle Sapiro · Poetics 4 Apr 2016 131
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Literature and Culture Studies research done?

The largest centres of Literature and Culture Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Lyon (France), Rennes (France) and Montreal (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Nanterre and Rennes.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 258 works
  2. 2 LyonFrance 57 works
  3. 3 RennesFrance 43 works
  4. 4 MontrealCanada 42 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 38 works
  6. 6 StrasbourgFrance 30 works
  7. 7 NanterreFrance 30 works
  8. 8 BrusselsBelgium 26 works
  9. 9 BordeauxFrance 25 works
  10. 10 NantesFrance 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. NanterreFR · 29.6 works64×
  2. RennesFR · 42.8 works43×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Literature and Culture Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Literature and Culture Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Sorbonne Université, Université de Lyon and Université de Strasbourg 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%15%mean 10.34%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sorbonne UniversitéUniversité de Strasb…Université Paris Nan…Université de Lyon
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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
1Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 78.913.5%30.2×30 +24.2%
2Université de LyonFrance 68.17.6%40.1×37 +77.8%
3Université de StrasbourgFrance 59.711.4%64.2×27 +67.9%
4Université Paris NanterreFrance 59.19.9%92.1×27 +25.0%
5Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 58.19.2%145.7×25 +38.7%
6Université Paris CitéFrance 55.910.7%14.2×16 +38.4%
7University of LausanneSwitzerland 53.412.7%13.2×9 +97.7%
8Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 51.113.8%32.3×11 -27.8%
9Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 50.07.9%48.9×12 -19.3%
10Université de LorraineFrance 49.66.7%54.0×30 +135.7%

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 Literature and Culture Studies, country by country

Is Literature and Culture Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Literature and Culture 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 Literature and Culture Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0063% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Literature and Culture Studies0.0085% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Literature and Culture 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%Literature and Culture Studies9.5% 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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