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Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 11k 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 study of collective memory, trauma, and dark tourism, with a focus on topics such as cultural trauma, postmemory, heritage tourism, and mediated memories. It delves into the ways in which societies remember and commemorate historical events, particularly traumatic ones like the Holocaust, and how these memories are manifested in various forms of tourism and cultural practices.

  • Collective Memory
  • Trauma
  • Dark Tourism
  • Cultural Trauma
  • Memory Studies
  • Holocaust
  • Postmemory
  • Heritage Tourism
  • Thanatourism
  • Mediated Memories
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

Which countries lead Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (599 and 347 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 599 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 347 works
  3. 3 Germany 168 works
  4. 4 Poland 144 works
  5. 5 Russia 131 works
  6. 6 India 98 works
  7. 7 Canada 93 works
  8. 8 France 86 works
  9. 9 Australia 84 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 81 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: 32.7%United Kingdom: 19.0%Germany: 9.2%Poland: 7.9%6 others listed: 31.3%33%largest
United States599 · 32.7%United Kingdom347 · 19.0%Germany168 · 9.2%Poland144 · 7.9%6 others listed573 · 31.3%

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

Which institutions lead Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research, followed by Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works
  2. 2 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 20 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 19 works
  4. 4 University of WarsawPoland 19 works
  5. 5 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 17 works
  6. 6 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 17 works
  7. 7 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 16 works
  8. 8 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 16 works
  9. 9 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 14 works
  10. 10 Charles UniversityCzechia 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration include Judith Butler, Daniel L. Schacter and Tim James Cole.

  1. 1 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  2. 2 Daniel L. Schacter United States 107k citations
  3. 3 Tim James Cole United Kingdom 103k citations
  4. 4 Alan Baddeley United Kingdom 96k 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, Trauma, and Commemoration?

The most cited paper in Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration is "The Representation of Meaning in Memory" (John R. Anderson, Walter Kintsch, 1975), with 2,077 citations. Next come "Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices" (1,951) and "9. The Generation Of Postmemory" (1,930).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Representation of Meaning in Memory John R. Anderson, Walter Kintsch · The American Journal of Psychology Sep 1975 2,077
2 Social Memory Studies: From “Collective Memory” to the Historical Sociology of Mnemonic Practices Jeffrey K. Olick, Joyce Robbins · Annual Review of Sociology Review Aug 1998 1,951
3 9. The Generation Of Postmemory Marianne Hirsch · Poetics Today Open access Mar 2008 1,930
4 Finding Meaning in Memory: A Methodological Critique of Collective Memory Studies Wulf Kansteiner · History and Theory May 2002 1,166
5 Collective Memory: The Two Cultures Jeffrey K. Olick · Sociological Theory Nov 1999 1,145
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research done?

The largest centres of Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Warsaw (Poland), Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vilnius.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 83 works
  2. 2 WarsawPoland 48 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 46 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 40 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 37 works
  6. 6 AmsterdamNetherlands 33 works
  7. 7 KyivUkraine 32 works
  8. 8 BerlinGermany 30 works
  9. 9 Washington D.C.United States 30 works
  10. 10 BudapestHungary 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. VilniusLT · 27.8 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University and West University of Timişoara 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.

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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 AmsterdamNetherlands 71.916.2%10.0×16 +58.6%
2Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 67.123.8%5.9×12 +25.0%
3West University of TimişoaraRomania 64.633.5%35.9×9 +156.2%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 60.122.0%4.8×12 +22.5%
5University of HelsinkiFinland 57.926.9%5.1×10 +92.3%
6University of WarsawPoland 57.54.2%13.4×19 +57.9%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.511.6%4.3×14 +45.9%
8Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 56.88.6%9.6×18 +20.8%
9Charles UniversityCzechia 54.46.5%10.8×14 +218.4%
10Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 53.823.2%8.2×8 +107.1%

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, Trauma, and Commemoration, country by country

Is Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration.

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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, Trauma, and Commemoration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration 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.

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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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