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Modernist Literature and Criticism

Modernist Literature and Criticism is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 5.2k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the cultural, artistic, and societal impact of Modernism, spanning literature, art, gender, society, history, psychoanalysis, colonialism, and religion. It delves into the works of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, and explores the intersection of modernist thought with various aspects of human experience.

  • Modernism
  • Literature
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Society
  • Gender
  • History
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Colonialism
  • Religion
Research works
5.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
524
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Modernist Literature and Criticism

Which countries lead Modernist Literature and Criticism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (228 and 159 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 228 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 159 works
  3. 3 India 63 works
  4. 4 China 44 works
  5. 5 France 38 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 26 works
  7. 7 Australia 25 works
  8. 8 Canada 24 works
  9. 9 Ireland 20 works
  10. 10 Germany 20 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: 35.3%United Kingdom: 24.5%India: 9.8%China: 6.9%6 others listed: 23.5%35%largest
United States228 · 35.3%United Kingdom159 · 24.5%India63 · 9.8%China44 · 6.9%6 others listed152 · 23.5%

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

Which institutions lead Modernist Literature and Criticism research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of California, Berkeley publishes the most Modernist Literature and Criticism research, followed by University of Oxford and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 13 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  5. 5 University College DublinIreland 9 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 8 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 7 works
  9. 9 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Modernist Literature and Criticism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Modernist Literature and Criticism include Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud and Peter Brooks.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k citations
  3. 3 Peter Brooks Australia 86k 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 Modernist Literature and Criticism?

The most cited paper in Modernist Literature and Criticism is "JOHN BRAXTON HICKS, BIPOLAR VERSION, AND THE CONTRACTIONS OF THE PREGNANT UTERUS" (Harold Speert, 1956), with 372 citations. Next come "The Second Person" (190) and "Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction" (168).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 JOHN BRAXTON HICKS, BIPOLAR VERSION, AND THE CONTRACTIONS OF THE PREGNANT UTERUS Harold Speert · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Apr 1956 372
2 The Second Person Donald Davidson · Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1992 190
3 Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction Nancy K. Miller · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 1981 168
4 AN XYY HUMAN MALE Ann‐Sofie Sandberg · The Lancet Aug 1961 163
5 N.B.T. TEST STIMULATED B.H. Park, Robert A. Good · The Lancet Sep 1970 123
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Where is Modernist Literature and Criticism research done?

The largest centres of Modernist Literature and Criticism research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Dublin (Ireland), Oxford (United Kingdom) and Berkeley (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 28 works
  2. 2 DublinIreland 18 works
  3. 3 OxfordUnited Kingdom 14 works
  4. 4 BerkeleyUnited States 13 works
  5. 5 Los AngelesUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 10 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 9 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 28.3 works3.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Modernist Literature and Criticism than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Modernist Literature and Criticism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge score highest, combining citation 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.

Citation 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 California, BerkeleyUnited States 80.021.2%17.1×13 +310.1%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 61.510.4%11.2×12 +1.8%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 47.19.9%11.3×11 +45.1%
4University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 39.715.3%12.3×8 +284.3%
5University College DublinIreland 25.00.8%23.1×9 +181.1%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Modernist Literature and Criticism, country by country

Is Modernist Literature and Criticism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Modernist Literature and Criticism.

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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 Modernist Literature and Criticism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0032% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Modernist Literature and Criticism0.0042% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Modernist Literature and Criticism 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%Modernist Literature and Criticism9.9% 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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