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Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Media, Religion, Digital Communication is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of religion and digital technology, encompassing topics such as the influence of the internet on religious authority, the formation of online religious communities, the mediatization of religious practices, virtual reality in religious contexts, the development of religious mobile applications, and the cultural adaptation of traditional religious practices to digital platforms.

  • Digital Religion
  • Internet
  • Religious Authority
  • Online Community
  • Cyberspace
  • Mediatization
  • Virtual Reality
  • Mobile Applications
  • Social Media
  • Cultural Adaptation
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media, Religion, Digital Communication

Which countries lead Media, Religion, Digital Communication research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (570 and 451 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 570 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 451 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 166 works
  4. 4 India 137 works
  5. 5 Germany 132 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 119 works
  7. 7 Nigeria 115 works
  8. 8 Poland 113 works
  9. 9 Russia 111 works
  10. 10 China 95 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.

United States: 28.3%Indonesia: 22.5%United Kingdom: 8.3%India: 6.8%6 others listed: 34.1%28%largest
United States570 · 28.3%Indonesia451 · 22.5%United Kingdom166 · 8.3%India137 · 6.8%6 others listed685 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Media, Religion, Digital Communication research?

By volume in 2022-now, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Bengkulu publishes the most Media, Religion, Digital Communication research, followed by Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya and Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University Bandung.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 20 works
  2. 2 Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu SurabayaIndonesia 19 works
  3. 3 Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University BandungIndonesia 17 works
  4. 4 Artistic Realization TechnologiesUnited States 15 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  6. 6 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 15 works
  7. 7 Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University YogyakartaIndonesia 14 works
  8. 8 Jakarta Theological SeminaryIndonesia 14 works
  9. 9 Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University JakartaIndonesia 14 works
  10. 10 UIN Sunan Ampel SurabayaIndonesia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media, Religion, Digital Communication?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media, Religion, Digital Communication include Erving Goffman and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Erving Goffman United States 133k citations
  2. 2 Bruno Latour France 129k 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, Religion, Digital Communication?

The most cited paper in Media, Religion, Digital Communication is "Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion" (Dacher J. Keltner, Jonathan Haidt, 2003), with 2,064 citations. Next come "Mediating the Message in the 21st Century: A Media Sociology Perspective" (751) and "Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter" (580).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion Dacher J. Keltner, Jonathan Haidt · Cognition & Emotion 2003 2,064
2 Mediating the Message in the 21st Century: A Media Sociology Perspective Pamela J. Shoemaker, Stephen D. Reese Aug 1995 751
3 Partisan Polarization Is the Primary Psychological Motivation behind Political Fake News Sharing on Twitter Mathias Osmundsen, Alexander Bor, Peter Bjerregaard Vahlstrup et al. · American Political Science Review Open access 6 May 2021 580
4 Media representation of Muslims and Islam from 2000 to 2015: A meta-analysis Saifuddin Ahmed, Jörg Matthes · International Communication Gazette Review 27 Jun 2016 560
5 Social Media its Impact with Positive and Negative Aspects Shabnoor Siddiqui, Tajinder Singh · International Journal of Computer Applications Technology and Research Open access 4 Feb 2016 472
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Where is Media, Religion, Digital Communication research done?

The largest centres of Media, Religion, Digital Communication research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Surabaya (Indonesia) and Bandung (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 61 works
  2. 2 YogyakartaIndonesia 51 works
  3. 3 SurabayaIndonesia 48 works
  4. 4 BandungIndonesia 39 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 37 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 30 works
  8. 8 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  9. 9 KyivUkraine 24 works
  10. 10 BengkuluIndonesia 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Media, Religion, Digital Communication?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Zurich, Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya and University of Vienna 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 12.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ZurichUniversity of ViennaInstitut Sains dan T…Institut Agama Islam…
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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 ZurichSwitzerland 80.935.3%6.2×12 +39.8%
2Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu SurabayaIndonesia 67.612.7%24.0×19 +1014.4%
3University of ViennaAustria 62.515.9%9.2×13 +195.8%
4Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 59.09.9%4.8×20 +410.0%
5Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University BandungIndonesia 55.23.6%16.7×17 +195.8%
6John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 53.010.7%30.8×15 +62.9%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 51.820.3%2.7×10 +46.3%
8Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 49.19.9%37.0×14 +80.1%
9Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 45.67.6%15.7×12 +204.0%
10Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University YogyakartaIndonesia 43.63.4%10.2×14 +57.7%

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 Media, Religion, Digital Communication, country by country

Is Media, Religion, Digital Communication research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Media, Religion, Digital Communication.

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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, Religion, Digital Communication as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Media, Religion, Digital Communication0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media, Religion, Digital Communication 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, Religion, Digital Communication10.3% 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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