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Memory, violence, and history

Memory, violence, and history is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1956. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on memory studies, social trauma analysis, and the impact of political violence on collective memory. It covers topics such as the transmission of trauma across generations, the role of testimony in preserving historical memory, and the cultural and societal implications of human rights violations during dictatorships.

  • Memory
  • Trauma
  • Social History
  • Human Rights
  • Collective Memory
  • Dictatorship
  • Testimony
  • Cultural Studies
  • Transgenerational Trauma
  • Political Violence
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1956
In the world top 10%
840
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Argentina
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Memory, violence, and history

Which countries lead Memory, violence, and history research?

By volume, Argentina and Spain publish the most (558 and 317 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Argentina 558 works
  2. 2 Spain 317 works
  3. 3 Mexico 213 works
  4. 4 Colombia 190 works
  5. 5 Chile 173 works
  6. 6 Brazil 118 works
  7. 7 United States 93 works
  8. 8 France 57 works
  9. 9 Peru 55 works
  10. 10 Uruguay 36 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.

Argentina: 30.8%Spain: 17.5%Mexico: 11.8%Colombia: 10.5%6 others listed: 29.4%31%largest
Argentina558 · 30.8%Spain317 · 17.5%Mexico213 · 11.8%Colombia190 · 10.5%6 others listed532 · 29.4%

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

Which institutions lead Memory, violence, and history research?

By volume in 2022-now, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas publishes the most Memory, violence, and history research, followed by Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Nacional de La Plata.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 129 works
  2. 2 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 97 works
  3. 3 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 64 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 41 works
  5. 5 University of ChileChile 38 works
  6. 6 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 34 works
  7. 7 Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay 32 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional de CórdobaArgentina 31 works
  9. 9 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 30 works
  10. 10 Universidad de AntioquiaColombia 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Memory, violence, and history?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Memory, violence, and history include Noam Chomsky and Alan Baddeley.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  2. 2 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, violence, and history?

The most cited paper in Memory, violence, and history is "El hombre en busca de sentido" (Juan Gabriel Figueroa Velázquez, Arlén Cerón Islas, 2022), with 330 citations. Next come "Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history" (212) and "Public Memorialization in Perspective: Truth, Justice and Memory of Past Repression in the Southern Cone of South America" (150).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 El hombre en busca de sentido Juan Gabriel Figueroa Velázquez, Arlén Cerón Islas · Boletín Científico de las Ciencias Económico Administrativas del ICEA Open access 5 Jun 2022 330
2 Violence and social orders: a conceptual framework for interpreting recorded human history Paula Zuluaga-Borrero · Desafíos (Universidad del Rosario) Open access 2010 212
3 Public Memorialization in Perspective: Truth, Justice and Memory of Past Repression in the Southern Cone of South America Elizabeth Jelín · International Journal of Transitional Justice Mar 2007 150
4 La teoría de las representaciones sociales de Serge Moscovici Martín Mora · Athenea Digital Revista de pensamiento e investigación social Open access Nov 2002 146
5 Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile Brenda Elsey · Hispanic American Historical Review 14 Oct 2008 139
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Memory, violence, and history research done?

The largest centres of Memory, violence, and history research in 2022-now are Buenos Aires (Argentina), Madrid (Spain), Santiago (Chile) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in La Plata, Rosario and Córdoba.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Buenos AiresArgentina 249 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 119 works
  3. 3 SantiagoChile 115 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 104 works
  5. 5 BogotáColombia 93 works
  6. 6 La PlataArgentina 67 works
  7. 7 MedellínColombia 45 works
  8. 8 CórdobaArgentina 38 works
  9. 9 MontevideoUruguay 36 works
  10. 10 LimaPeru 32 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. La PlataAR · 67.0 works130×
  2. RosarioAR · 28.0 works109×
  3. CórdobaAR · 38.4 works72×
  4. Buenos AiresAR · 249.0 works68×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Memory, violence, and history?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Alicante, Universidad de la República de Uruguay and Universidad de Buenos Aires 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 15.39%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of AlicanteUniversidad Complute…Universidad de Bueno…Universidad de la Re…
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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 AlicanteSpain 61.428.6%16.6×8 +30.8%
2Universidad de la República de UruguayUruguay 57.86.6%72.0×32 +67.8%
3Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 56.68.1%139.7×97 -39.9%
4Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 56.615.1%22.5×34 +4.1%
5University of the Basque CountrySpain 55.718.9%14.7×12 -21.5%
6University of ChileChile 54.56.2%62.5×38 +15.6%
7Alberto Hurtado UniversityChile 54.324.5%125.6×11 -23.9%
8Austral University of ChileChile 53.819.8%54.9×8 +23.5%
9Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 52.412.0%23.9×41 -3.5%
10Universidad Distrital Francisco José de CaldasColombia 51.314.1%86.4×10 +24.5%

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, violence, and history, country by country

Is Memory, violence, and history research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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, violence, and history as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0077% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Memory, violence, and history0.0079% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Memory, violence, and history 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%Memory, violence, and history9.6% 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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