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Media Discourse and Social Analysis

Media Discourse and Social Analysis is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 3.8k research works in it since 1954. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of media discourse, social movements, and cultural representation, with a particular emphasis on topics such as Islamophobia, digital media, globalization, and identity construction. It encompasses critical discourse analysis and sociological perspectives to understand the role of media in shaping public opinion and representing various social phenomena.

  • Media Discourse
  • Social Movements
  • Islamophobia
  • Digital Media
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • New Media
  • Globalization
  • Sociological Analysis
  • Cultural Representation
  • Identity Construction
Research works
3.8k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
370
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+84%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
87% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media Discourse and Social Analysis

Which countries lead Media Discourse and Social Analysis research?

By volume, Türkiye and the United States publish the most (1.9k and 85 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 1.9k works
  2. 2 United States 85 works
  3. 3 ?? 46 works
  4. 4 Azerbaijan 34 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 29 works
  6. 6 India 26 works
  7. 7 Iraq 20 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 11 works
  9. 9 Cyprus 10 works
  10. 10 Russia 10 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: 87.5%United States: 3.9%??: 2.1%Azerbaijan: 1.6%6 others listed: 4.9%87%largest
Türkiye1,895 · 87.5%United States85 · 3.9%??46 · 2.1%Azerbaijan34 · 1.6%6 others listed106 · 4.9%

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

Which institutions lead Media Discourse and Social Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi publishes the most Media Discourse and Social Analysis research, followed by Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University and Marmara University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 66 works
  2. 2 Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 57 works
  3. 3 Marmara UniversityTürkiye 41 works
  4. 4 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 40 works
  5. 5 Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 37 works
  6. 6 Selçuk UniversityTürkiye 36 works
  7. 7 Ankara UniversityTürkiye 35 works
  8. 8 Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart ÜniversitesiTürkiye 30 works
  9. 9 Anadolu UniversityTürkiye 30 works
  10. 10 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 29 works

What are the most cited papers in Media Discourse and Social Analysis?

The most cited paper in Media Discourse and Social Analysis is "Muhasebe ve Finansman Dergisi’nde Yayınlanan Makalelerin Bibliyometrik Analizi" (Mustafa Hotamışlı, Işıl Erem, 2014), with 107 citations. Next come "Çevrimiçi Ders Veren Öğretim Elemanlarının Uzaktan Eğitim Hakkındaki Görüşleri" (105) and "SOSYAL BİLİMLERDE İÇERİK VE SÖYLEM ANALİZİ" (102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Muhasebe ve Finansman Dergisi’nde Yayınlanan Makalelerin Bibliyometrik Analizi Mustafa Hotamışlı, Işıl Erem · Muhasebe ve Finansman Dergisi Jul 2014 107
2 Çevrimiçi Ders Veren Öğretim Elemanlarının Uzaktan Eğitim Hakkındaki Görüşleri Meli̇h Derya Gürer, Erkan Tekınarslan, Nuh Yavuzalp · Turkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry Open access 29 Jan 2016 105
3 SOSYAL BİLİMLERDE İÇERİK VE SÖYLEM ANALİZİ Songül Sallan Gül, Özlem Kahya Nizam · Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute 3 Dec 2020 102
4 TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ RESPONSE IN TIMES OF PANDEMIC CRISIS (COVID-19) Ioannis Kamarianos, Anthi Adamopoulou, Haris Lambropoulos et al. · European Journal of Education Studies Open access 27 Jun 2020 89
5 Nitel Bir Araştırma Deseni Olarak Etnografi Hayriye Orhan, Cevdet Yılmaz · UMAY SANAT VE SOSYAL BİLİMLER DERGİSİ Open access 2025 76
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Where is Media Discourse and Social Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Media Discourse and Social Analysis research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), Ankara (Türkiye), Konya (Türkiye) and Izmir (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mardin and Yozgat.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 305 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 295 works
  3. 3 KonyaTürkiye 66 works
  4. 4 IzmirTürkiye 61 works
  5. 5 EskişehirTürkiye 50 works
  6. 6 ErzurumTürkiye 44 works
  7. 7 SivasTürkiye 37 works
  8. 8 SamsunTürkiye 31 works
  9. 9 ÇanakkaleTürkiye 30 works
  10. 10 AdapazarıTürkiye 29 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MardinTR · 20.4 works108×
  2. YozgatTR · 22.4 works73×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Media Discourse and Social Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Media Discourse and Social Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi, Atatürk University and Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi 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 15.26%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Sivas Cumhuriyet Üni…Atatürk UniversityAnkara Sosyal Biliml…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
1Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 69.512.0%210.7×66 +28.5%
2Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 65.312.4%59.1×40 +173.9%
3Sivas Cumhuriyet ÜniversitesiTürkiye 64.913.9%76.1×37 +189.5%
4Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli UniversityTürkiye 64.410.8%211.0×57 +272.6%
5Suleyman Demirel UniversityKazakhstan 64.116.4%79.3×21 +8.2%
6Bilecik Şeyh Edebali ÜniversitesiTürkiye 62.620.7%73.2×13 +90.1%
7Akdeniz UniversityTürkiye 62.113.5%55.9×25 +62.2%
8Ahi Evran UniversityTürkiye 61.324.0%39.9×8 +219.5%
9Anadolu UniversityTürkiye 59.710.9%122.5×30 +95.7%
10Dicle UniversityTürkiye 57.818.0%44.4×14 +157.8%

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 Media Discourse and Social Analysis, country by country

Is Media Discourse and Social Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 84% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Media Discourse and Social Analysis.

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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 Discourse and Social Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Media Discourse and Social Analysis0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media Discourse and Social Analysis 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 Discourse and Social Analysis9.7% in 20252020

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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