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Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel

Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers delves into the philosophical, literary, and cultural aspects of Friedrich Nietzsche's works, exploring his influence on ethics, psychology, aesthetics, and history. It encompasses critical analysis, interpretation, and contextualization of Nietzsche's ideas and their impact on various fields.

  • Nietzsche
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Culture
  • Criticism
  • Influence
  • Ethics
  • Psychology
  • Aesthetics
  • History
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel

Which countries lead Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research?

By volume, Germany and Brazil publish the most (634 and 276 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 634 works
  2. 2 Brazil 276 works
  3. 3 United States 209 works
  4. 4 France 97 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 84 works
  6. 6 Austria 70 works
  7. 7 Spain 66 works
  8. 8 Switzerland 63 works
  9. 9 Italy 56 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 37 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.

Germany: 39.8%Brazil: 17.3%United States: 13.1%France: 6.1%6 others listed: 23.6%40%largest
Germany634 · 39.8%Brazil276 · 17.3%United States209 · 13.1%France97 · 6.1%6 others listed376 · 23.6%

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

Which institutions lead Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Freiburg publishes the most Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research, followed by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of FreiburgGermany 28 works
  2. 2 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 25 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 20 works
  5. 5 University of MünsterGermany 18 works
  6. 6 University of ViennaAustria 17 works
  7. 7 University of PotsdamGermany 15 works
  8. 8 Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 15 works
  9. 9 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 12 works
  10. 10 University of CologneGermany 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel include Pierre Bourdıeu, Nicholas G. Martin and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 O. Schneider Switzerland 141k citations
  5. 5 Christof Koch United States 137k citations
  6. 6 Bruce Thompson United States 120k citations
  7. 7 James J. Collins United States 118k citations
  8. 8 Judith Butler United States 116k 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 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel?

The most cited paper in Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel is "Philosophische Untersuchungen" (Joachim Schulte, 2022), with 1,348 citations. Next come "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" (873) and "Recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of primary focal hyperhidrosis" (483).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Philosophische Untersuchungen Joachim Schulte · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2022 1,348
2 Thus Spoke Zarathustra Horst Hutter · Canadian Journal of Political Science Jun 2007 873
3 Recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of primary focal hyperhidrosis John M. Hornberger, Kevin Grimes, Markus K. Naumann et al. · Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 27 Jul 2004 483
4 Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles Charles Senn Taylor · Philosophical Books Oct 1981 458
5 Sein und Zeit. Von Martin Heidegger. 14. Auflage mit den Randbemerkungen. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. 1977. 437 S. 28, – DM. André Rocque · Dialogue Jun 1980 377
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Where is Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research done?

The largest centres of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), São Paulo (Brazil) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Freiburg and Münster.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 63 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 47 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 36 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 35 works
  5. 5 FreiburgGermany 34 works
  6. 6 ViennaAustria 33 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 28 works
  8. 8 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 28 works
  9. 9 ZurichSwitzerland 22 works
  10. 10 MünsterGermany 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. FreiburgDE · 33.7 works27×
  2. MünsterDE · 21.0 works19×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vienna, University of Freiburg and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 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%10%20%mean 9.11%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ViennaUniversity of CologneUniversity of FreiburgLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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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 ViennaAustria 85.217.6%18.6×17 +56.5%
2University of FreiburgGermany 77.08.8%35.3×28 +34.4%
3Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 73.87.6%16.7×26 +68.6%
4University of CologneGermany 62.312.9%15.6×12 +17.4%
5Freie Universität BerlinGermany 62.14.7%26.7×20 +13.3%
6University of RostockGermany 59.014.0%30.9×10 +102.2%
7University of PotsdamGermany 58.18.9%36.1×15 +256.1%
8University of MünsterGermany 53.85.0%23.6×18 +47.8%
9Heinrich Heine University DüsseldorfGermany 53.73.6%22.9×15 +356.1%
10Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 52.18.0%17.4×11 -10.2%

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 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel, country by country

Is Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0086% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel 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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