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Media and Communication Studies

Media and Communication Studies is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 5k research works in it since 1965. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics within media and communication studies, including mediatization, social change, digital age, journalism, social media, and organizational communication. It explores the impact of media on culture, society, and politics, as well as the evolving nature of communication in the digital era.

  • Mediatization
  • Communication
  • Social Change
  • Digital Age
  • Cultural
  • Anthropological
  • Journalism
  • Social Media
  • Organizational Communication
  • Public Discourse
Research works
5k
fractional, since 1965
In the world top 10%
493
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media and Communication Studies

Which countries lead Media and Communication Studies research?

By volume, Brazil and Argentina publish the most (1k and 69 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 1k works
  2. 2 Argentina 69 works
  3. 3 Spain 53 works
  4. 4 Portugal 50 works
  5. 5 Mexico 41 works
  6. 6 United States 32 works
  7. 7 Peru 17 works
  8. 8 Chile 16 works
  9. 9 France 16 works
  10. 10 Colombia 14 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.

Brazil: 77.0%Argentina: 5.1%Spain: 4.0%Portugal: 3.7%6 others listed: 10.2%77%largest
Brazil1,033 · 77.0%Argentina69 · 5.1%Spain53 · 4.0%Portugal50 · 3.7%6 others listed137 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Media and Communication Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Media and Communication Studies research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 49 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 34 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 34 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 32 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 29 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 24 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 23 works
  8. 8 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 22 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 20 works
  10. 10 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media and Communication Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media and Communication Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu and Teun A. van Dijk.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Teun A. van Dijk Spain 56k 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 Media and Communication Studies?

The most cited paper in Media and Communication Studies is "Entre o passado e o futuro" (Guilherme Carvalho, Mauri König, 2017), with 1,814 citations. Next come "Uma tempestade de luz: a compreensão possibilitada pela análise textual discursiva" (493) and "Análise textual discursiva: processo reconstrutivo de múltiplas faces" (360).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Entre o passado e o futuro Guilherme Carvalho, Mauri König · Alceu Open access 10 Jun 2017 1,814
2 Uma tempestade de luz: a compreensão possibilitada pela análise textual discursiva Roque Moraes · Ciência & Educação (Bauru) Open access 2003 493
3 Análise textual discursiva: processo reconstrutivo de múltiplas faces Roque Moraes, Maria do Carmo Galiazzi · Ciência & Educação (Bauru) Open access Apr 2006 360
4 O sujeito coletivo que fala Lefevre,Fernando, Ana Maria Cavalcanti Lefèvre · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) Open access 2006 220
5 Resenha do livro “Representações Sociais: investigações em Psicologia Social”, escrito por Serge Moscovici, Editora Vozes, 2009 Felipe da Silva Triani, Cristina Novikoff · Magistro Open access 16 Dec 2015 201
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Where is Media and Communication Studies research done?

The largest centres of Media and Communication Studies research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Santa Maria and Niterói.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 175 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 90 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 48 works
  4. 4 Porto AlegreBrazil 48 works
  5. 5 FlorianópolisBrazil 36 works
  6. 6 Buenos AiresArgentina 36 works
  7. 7 CuritibaBrazil 34 works
  8. 8 Santa MariaBrazil 32 works
  9. 9 BrasíliaBrazil 32 works
  10. 10 SalvadorBrazil 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Santa MariaBR · 32.1 works49×
  2. NiteróiBR · 23.0 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Media and Communication Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Media and Communication Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Paraná and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 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%30%mean 12.58%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidade de São PauloBrazil 62.28.6%19.7×49 -2.7%
2Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 56.424.0%26.7×16 -25.2%
3Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 53.818.9%21.6×20 -22.7%
4Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 50.012.1%39.4×32 -17.1%
5Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 45.68.3%37.9×22 +37.2%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 43.06.4%35.1×34 -16.4%
7Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 42.47.5%36.2×18 +10.4%
8Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 40.68.4%33.4×34 -16.9%
9Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil 40.016.7%38.8×11 +16.7%
10Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 39.414.9%13.3×12 -28.4%

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 Media and Communication Studies, country by country

Is Media and Communication Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Media and Communication Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Media and Communication Studies0.0062% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media and Communication 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%Media and Communication Studies9.9% in 202520102020

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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