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Modern American Literature Studies

Modern American Literature Studies is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 1.2k research works in it since 1954. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the literary and environmental analysis of Cormac McCarthy's works, particularly his exploration of post-apocalyptic themes, violence, and the depiction of nature in his western novels. The papers also delve into ethical considerations and the portrayal of apocalyptic scenarios in McCarthy's writings.

  • Cormac McCarthy
  • literature
  • environmental history
  • post-apocalyptic
  • violence
  • western novels
  • nature
  • ethics
  • apocalypse
  • border trilogy
Research works
1.2k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
123
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Modern American Literature Studies

Which countries lead Modern American Literature Studies research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (96 and 36 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 96 works
  2. 2 India 36 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 32 works
  4. 4 China 15 works
  5. 5 France 14 works
  6. 6 Spain 13 works
  7. 7 Canada 12 works
  8. 8 Germany 11 works
  9. 9 Poland 9 works
  10. 10 Australia 9 works

How concentrated that is

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United States: 38.8%India: 14.4%United Kingdom: 12.9%China: 6.2%6 others listed: 27.7%39%largest
United States96 · 38.8%India36 · 14.4%United Kingdom32 · 12.9%China15 · 6.2%6 others listed69 · 27.7%

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

Which institutions lead Modern American Literature Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Providence College publishes the most Modern American Literature Studies research, followed by Don State Agrarian University and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Providence CollegeUnited States 5 works
  2. 2 Don State Agrarian UniversityRussia 3 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 3 works
  4. 4 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 3 works
  5. 5 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 3 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 3 works
  7. 7 Duke UniversityUnited States 3 works
  8. 8 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 2 works
  9. 9 University of AmsterdamNetherlands 2 works
  10. 10 Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 2 works

Who are the leading researchers in Modern American Literature Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Modern American Literature Studies include Stephen C. Farber.

  1. 1 Stephen C. Farber United States 40k 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 Modern American Literature Studies?

The most cited paper in Modern American Literature Studies is "Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli‐fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism" (Adeline Johns‐Putra, 2016), with 227 citations. Next come "Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis" (226) and "Meet the humanities" (187).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Climate change in literature and literary studies: From cli‐fi, climate change theater and ecopoetry to ecocriticism and climate change criticism Adeline Johns‐Putra · Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change 20 Jan 2016 227
2 Bad Endings: American Apocalypsis Kathleen Stewart, Susan Harding · Annual Review of Anthropology Review Oct 1999 226
3 Meet the humanities Mike Hulme · Nature Climate Change 24 Jun 2011 187
4 What Are the Novels of the Anthropocene? American Fiction in Geological Time Kate H. Marshall · American Literary History 7 Jun 2015 136
5 Public memory and private grief: The construction of shrines at the sites of public tragedy Cheryl R. Jorgensen‐Earp, Lori A. Lanzilotti · Quarterly Journal of Speech May 1998 118
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Where is Modern American Literature Studies research done?

The largest centres of Modern American Literature Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Providence (United States), Los Angeles (United States) and Chennai (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 5 works
  2. 2 ProvidenceUnited States 5 works
  3. 3 Los AngelesUnited States 4 works
  4. 4 ChennaiIndia 4 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 4 works
  6. 6 BudapestHungary 4 works
  7. 7 Rostov-on-DonRussia 3 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 3 works
  9. 9 LjubljanaSlovenia 3 works
  10. 10 CoventryUnited Kingdom 3 works
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Is Modern American Literature Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Modern American Literature Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Modern American Literature Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Modern American Literature Studies 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%Modern American Literature Studies9.6% in 20252020

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

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