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Minority Rights and Languages

Minority Rights and Languages is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 1.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the international protection of minority rights, focusing on topics such as the European Union's approach to ethnic minorities, the impact of globalization on minority rights, and the evolving scope of minority rights in the context of multiculturalism and EU enlargement. It also delves into the legal and political dimensions of minority protection, including the role of international law, human rights, and cultural diversity governance.

  • Minority Rights
  • International Law
  • European Union
  • Ethnic Minorities
  • Human Rights
  • Globalization
  • Diversity Governance
  • EU Enlargement
  • Cultural Diversity
  • National Minorities
Research works
1.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
164
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+84%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Minority Rights and Languages

Which countries lead Minority Rights and Languages research?

By volume, Italy and the United States publish the most (53 and 38 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 53 works
  2. 2 United States 38 works
  3. 3 Germany 29 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 26 works
  5. 5 France 23 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 18 works
  7. 7 Spain 16 works
  8. 8 Romania 16 works
  9. 9 Hungary 15 works
  10. 10 Poland 14 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.

Italy: 21.3%United States: 15.5%Germany: 11.7%Indonesia: 10.3%6 others listed: 41.2%21%largest
Italy53 · 21.3%United States38 · 15.5%Germany29 · 11.7%Indonesia26 · 10.3%6 others listed102 · 41.2%

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

Which institutions lead Minority Rights and Languages research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tribhuvan University publishes the most Minority Rights and Languages research, followed by Indonesia Defense University and Woodbury University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 8 works
  2. 2 Indonesia Defense UniversityIndonesia 7 works
  3. 3 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 6 works
  4. 4 University of BucharestRomania 6 works
  5. 5 Ludovika University of Public ServiceHungary 5 works
  6. 6 University of MilanItaly 4 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 4 works
  8. 8 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 3 works
  9. 9 Universidad de DeustoSpain 3 works
  10. 10 University of MacerataItaly 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Minority Rights and Languages?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Minority Rights and Languages include Teun A. van Dijk and John H. Rex.

  1. 1 Teun A. van Dijk Spain 56k citations
  2. 2 John H. Rex United States 44k 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 Minority Rights and Languages?

The most cited paper in Minority Rights and Languages is "Minority Government and Majority Rule. By Kaare Strom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 293p. $39.50." (Anthony Mughan, 1991), with 605 citations. Next come "The Rights of Minority Cultures" (538) and "Planning Language, Planning Inequality" (422).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Minority Government and Majority Rule. By Kaare Strom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 293p. $39.50. Anthony Mughan · American Political Science Review Sep 1991 605
2 The Rights of Minority Cultures Will Kymlicka · Political Theory Feb 1992 538
3 Planning Language, Planning Inequality Sandra Lee McKay, James W. Tollefson · TESOL Quarterly 1992 422
4 The rights of minority cultures Patrick Thornberry · International Affairs Jul 1996 398
5 Language and minority rights: ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of language Anna Robinson‐Pant · International Journal of Educational Development 30 Mar 2004 357
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Where is Minority Rights and Languages research done?

The largest centres of Minority Rights and Languages research in 2022-now are Budapest (Hungary), Kathmandu (Nepal), Bucharest (Romania) and Bogor (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BudapestHungary 14 works
  2. 2 KathmanduNepal 8 works
  3. 3 BucharestRomania 7 works
  4. 4 BogorIndonesia 7 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 6 works
  6. 6 BurbankUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 MilanItaly 6 works
  8. 8 RomeItaly 6 works
  9. 9 LondonUnited Kingdom 5 works
  10. 10 FlorenceItaly 5 works
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Is Minority Rights and Languages research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 84% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Minority Rights and Languages.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Minority Rights and Languages as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0010% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Minority Rights and Languages 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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