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Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies

Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% 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 including geopolitics, linguistic analysis, cultural studies, public health, environmental health, national security, corpus analysis, social movements, religious studies, and human rights. The papers delve into various aspects of these fields and provide insights into contemporary global issues.

  • Geopolitics
  • Linguistics
  • Cultural Studies
  • Public Health
  • Environmental Health
  • National Security
  • Corpus Analysis
  • Social Movements
  • Religious Studies
  • Human Rights
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
519
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies

Which countries lead Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research?

By volume, Poland and Russia publish the most (278 and 229 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 278 works
  2. 2 Russia 229 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 169 works
  4. 4 United States 78 works
  5. 5 China 49 works
  6. 6 Czechia 39 works
  7. 7 Bulgaria 30 works
  8. 8 Romania 24 works
  9. 9 Uzbekistan 20 works
  10. 10 Germany 18 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: 29.8%Russia: 24.6%Ukraine: 18.1%United States: 8.3%6 others listed: 19.1%30%largest
Poland278 · 29.8%Russia229 · 24.6%Ukraine169 · 18.1%United States78 · 8.3%6 others listed178 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Warsaw publishes the most Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research, followed by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WarsawPoland 35 works
  2. 2 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 33 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 33 works
  4. 4 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 27 works
  5. 5 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 22 works
  6. 6 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 19 works
  7. 7 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 14 works
  8. 8 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 13 works
  9. 9 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 13 works
  10. 10 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 11 works

What are the most cited papers in Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies?

The most cited paper in Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies is "Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. By W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982. x + 561" (Robert Burchfield, 1985), with 1,250 citations. Next come "Verbal Art as Performance1" (1,124) and "The intelligibility of speech as a function of the context of the test materials." (780).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. By W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982. x + 561 Robert Burchfield · Journal of English Linguistics Apr 1985 1,250
2 Verbal Art as Performance1 Richard W Bauman · American Anthropologist Jun 1975 1,124
3 The intelligibility of speech as a function of the context of the test materials. George Armitage Miller, George A. Heise, William L. Lichten · Journal of Experimental Psychology 1951 780
4 Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language Edward F. McQuarrie, David Glen Mick · Journal of Consumer Research Mar 1996 701
5 Reputation and the Corporate Brand Paul A. Argenti, Bob T. Druckenmiller · Corporate Reputation Review 2004 359
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Where is Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research done?

The largest centres of Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Warsaw (Poland), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Krakow (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Katowice, Poznań and Krakow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 76 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 61 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 56 works
  4. 4 KrakowPoland 43 works
  5. 5 PoznańPoland 34 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 31 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 26 works
  8. 8 LvivUkraine 19 works
  9. 9 LublinPoland 19 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 18 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KatowicePL · 26.2 works44×
  2. PoznańPL · 34.0 works31×
  3. KrakowPL · 42.5 works23×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Warsaw, Lomonosov Moscow State University and St Petersburg 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%10%20%mean 10.31%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of WarsawLomonosov Moscow Sta…St Petersburg Univer…Adam Mickiewicz Univ…
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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 WarsawPoland 83.812.4%69.9×35 -32.4%
2Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 63.510.2%11.7×10 +50.5%
3St Petersburg UniversityRussia 62.910.2%27.2×13 +9.3%
4Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 61.07.7%82.8×33 -30.9%
5University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 60.38.1%90.6×19 +20.4%
6Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 60.010.6%33.2×22 -19.8%
7John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 49.715.0%51.2×8 -45.3%
8Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 47.79.1%46.5×13 -57.1%
9Weatherford CollegeUnited States 43.69.5%8.2×11 +46.7%
10Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 41.110.3%55.5×11 -42.7%

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, Language, and Rhetoric Studies, country by country

Is Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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, Language, and Rhetoric Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0044% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies0.0044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Literature, Language, and Rhetoric 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, Language, and Rhetoric Studies10.3% 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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