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Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Medieval and Early Modern Iberia is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 7.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of medieval urban society in Spain, focusing on religious institutions, noble families, political power, cultural practices, economic networks, social hierarchies, urban development, gender dynamics, and the historiography of the period.

  • Medieval Urban Society
  • Religious Institutions
  • Noble Families
  • Political Power
  • Cultural Practices
  • Economic Networks
  • Social Hierarchies
  • Urban Development
  • Gender Dynamics
  • Historiography
Research works
7.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
728
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Which countries lead Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research?

By volume, Spain and France publish the most (1k and 96 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 1k works
  2. 2 France 96 works
  3. 3 United States 93 works
  4. 4 Portugal 59 works
  5. 5 Italy 57 works
  6. 6 Mexico 46 works
  7. 7 Argentina 44 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 35 works
  9. 9 Brazil 23 works
  10. 10 Chile 13 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.

Spain: 69.0%France: 6.4%United States: 6.2%Portugal: 3.9%6 others listed: 14.5%69%largest
Spain1,040 · 69.0%France96 · 6.4%United States93 · 6.2%Portugal59 · 3.9%6 others listed219 · 14.5%

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

Which institutions lead Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research, followed by Universidad de Sevilla and Universitat de València.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 90 works
  2. 2 Universidad de SevillaSpain 72 works
  3. 3 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 71 works
  4. 4 Universidad de ValladolidSpain 56 works
  5. 5 Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain 42 works
  6. 6 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 38 works
  7. 7 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 33 works
  8. 8 Universidad de GranadaSpain 32 works
  9. 9 Real Academia EspañolaSpain 32 works
  10. 10 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Medieval and Early Modern Iberia include Juan Pablo and John Ernest Edwards.

  1. 1 Juan Pablo United States 49k citations
  2. 2 John Ernest Edwards United States 43k 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 Medieval and Early Modern Iberia?

The most cited paper in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia is "Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe" (Stephan Epstein, 1998), with 551 citations. Next come "LITERACY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN CASTILE" (254) and "Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century" (166).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Preindustrial Europe Stephan Epstein · The Journal of Economic History Sep 1998 551
2 LITERACY AND CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN CASTILE Sara T. Nolle · Past & Present 1989 254
3 Aristocrats and Traders: Sevillian Society in the Sixteenth Century Michael R. Weisser · Hispanic American Historical Review Open access Feb 1973 166
4 CRAFTS, GUILDS AND THE NEGOTIATION OF WORK IN THE MEDIEVAL TOWN Gervase Rosser · Past & Present Feb 1997 157
5 The Origins of the Commenda Contract John H. Pryor · Speculum 1977 129
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research done?

The largest centres of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Seville (Spain), Valencia (Spain) and Valladolid (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Valladolid, Santiago de Compostela and Salamanca.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 243 works
  2. 2 SevilleSpain 90 works
  3. 3 ValenciaSpain 81 works
  4. 4 ValladolidSpain 60 works
  5. 5 Santiago de CompostelaSpain 45 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 44 works
  7. 7 SalamancaSpain 41 works
  8. 8 ZaragozaSpain 35 works
  9. 9 GranadaSpain 34 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ValladolidES · 59.8 works113×
  2. Santiago de CompostelaES · 45.2 works74×
  3. SalamancaES · 41.4 works70×
  4. AlbaceteES · 26.4 works67×
  5. SevilleES · 90.2 works62×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Medieval and Early Modern Iberia?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de València, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universitat de Lleida 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 16.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat de LleidaUniversitat de Valèn…Universidad de SevillaUniversidad Complute…
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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
1Universitat de ValènciaSpain 70.516.7%96.1×72 +39.2%
2Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 63.39.3%75.0×90 +35.7%
3Universitat de LleidaSpain 60.938.3%65.2×8 +6.8%
4Universidad de SevillaSpain 59.711.5%93.5×72 +12.5%
5University of the Basque CountrySpain 59.714.9%40.1×26 +33.2%
6Universidad de ValladolidSpain 58.111.2%137.9×56 +41.6%
7Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 56.413.6%29.1×30 +31.3%
8Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal 48.912.9%45.3×18 +35.0%
9Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 48.616.5%32.8×25 -22.2%
10Universidade de VigoSpain 47.921.4%26.9×9 +5.3%

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 Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, country by country

Is Medieval and Early Modern Iberia research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% 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 Medieval and Early Modern Iberia as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0066% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Medieval and Early Modern Iberia0.0060% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia 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%Medieval and Early Modern Iberia9.6% 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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