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Memory, History, Trauma, Identity

Memory, History, Trauma, Identity is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 4.5k 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 development of collective memory in psychoanalysis, literature, and cultural sociology. It delves into topics such as trauma theory, social memory, narration, identity, migration, and historical studies. The intersection of psychoanalysis and literature in shaping collective memory is a central theme.

  • Collective Memory
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Literature
  • Social Memory
  • Trauma Theory
  • Narration
  • Identity
  • Migration
  • Historical Studies
  • Cultural Sociology
Research works
4.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
465
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+61%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Memory, History, Trauma, Identity

Which countries lead Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research?

By volume, Germany and the United States publish the most (963 and 100 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 963 works
  2. 2 United States 100 works
  3. 3 Switzerland 96 works
  4. 4 Austria 88 works
  5. 5 France 74 works
  6. 6 Poland 55 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 34 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 27 works
  9. 9 Russia 25 works
  10. 10 Italy 21 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.

Germany: 65.0%United States: 6.7%Switzerland: 6.4%Austria: 5.9%6 others listed: 15.9%65%largest
Germany963 · 65.0%United States100 · 6.7%Switzerland96 · 6.4%Austria88 · 5.9%6 others listed236 · 15.9%

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

Which institutions lead Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universität Hamburg publishes the most Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research, followed by Goethe University Frankfurt and Leibniz Association.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universität HamburgGermany 24 works
  2. 2 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 24 works
  3. 3 Leibniz AssociationGermany 22 works
  4. 4 Ruhr University BochumGermany 21 works
  5. 5 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 20 works
  6. 6 University of CologneGermany 20 works
  7. 7 Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 19 works
  8. 8 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 18 works
  9. 9 University of MünsterGermany 18 works
  10. 10 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Memory, History, Trauma, Identity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Memory, History, Trauma, Identity include Wolfgang K. Huber, Michel Foucault and Axel Buchner.

  1. 1 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Axel Buchner Germany 117k citations
  4. 4 Edgar Erdfelder Germany 114k citations
  5. 5 Eric R. Kandel United States 102k citations
  6. 6 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k 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 Memory, History, Trauma, Identity?

The most cited paper in Memory, History, Trauma, Identity is "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (Ulla Hofmann, 2001), with 2,268 citations. Next come "Stigma. Über Techniken der Bewältigung beschädigter Identität" (399) and "PRESENCE" (228).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Ulla Hofmann Book chapter 2001 2,268
2 Stigma. Über Techniken der Bewältigung beschädigter Identität Erving Goffman Book chapter 24 Oct 2015 399
3 PRESENCE Eelco Runia · History and Theory Feb 2006 228
4 Phänomenologie der Intersubjektivität Iso Kern · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2017 191
5 Commemorating the past: the discursive construction of official narratives about the `Rebirth of the Second Austrian Republic' Ruth Wodak, Rudolf de Cillia · Discourse & Communication Aug 2007 134
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Where is Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research done?

The largest centres of Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Hamburg (Germany) and Vienna (Austria).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 94 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 58 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 51 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 44 works
  5. 5 CologneGermany 38 works
  6. 6 Frankfurt am MainGermany 37 works
  7. 7 ZurichSwitzerland 33 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 27 works
  9. 9 DüsseldorfGermany 26 works
  10. 10 StuttgartGermany 23 works
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Where is the best place to study Memory, History, Trauma, Identity?

Among universities, judged by research, Goethe University Frankfurt, Ruhr University Bochum and Universität Hamburg 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 11.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Goethe University Fr…Ruhr University BochumUniversität HamburgLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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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
1Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 84.719.1%37.2×24 +175.8%
2Ruhr University BochumGermany 66.012.1%35.5×21 +98.6%
3Universität HamburgGermany 65.08.5%22.6×24 +67.1%
4Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 62.28.3%15.8×20 +107.8%
5Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 56.912.5%16.9×14 +43.2%
6Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 54.810.3%36.3×19 +118.7%
7Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 53.48.8%35.5×18 +178.3%
8University of BaselSwitzerland 53.012.8%19.9×11 +98.2%
9University of CologneGermany 52.77.8%31.4×20 -5.9%
10Leipzig UniversityGermany 52.112.1%27.9×14 +46.4%

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 Memory, History, Trauma, Identity, country by country

Is Memory, History, Trauma, Identity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 61% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Memory, History, Trauma, Identity.

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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 Memory, History, Trauma, Identity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Memory, History, Trauma, Identity0.0078% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Memory, History, Trauma, Identity 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 counting10%20%Memory, History, Trauma, Identity9.3% 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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