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Philosophical and Historical Studies

Philosophical and Historical Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 2.4k 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 covers a wide range of topics including postmodernism, social change, religious tolerance, globalization, human rights, philosophical reflection, cosmopolitanism, environmental justice, civil society, and ethical challenges. The papers explore the intersection of these themes in various contexts, providing insights into the complexities of contemporary society and the evolving dynamics of culture, politics, and ethics.

  • Postmodernism
  • Social Change
  • Religious Tolerance
  • Globalization
  • Human Rights
  • Philosophical Reflection
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Environmental Justice
  • Civil Society
  • Ethical Challenges
Research works
2.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
249
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
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Philosophical and Historical Studies

Which countries lead Philosophical and Historical Studies research?

By volume, Germany and Russia publish the most (166 and 78 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 166 works
  2. 2 Russia 78 works
  3. 3 United States 50 works
  4. 4 Ukraine 41 works
  5. 5 Brazil 32 works
  6. 6 Poland 24 works
  7. 7 Austria 20 works
  8. 8 Italy 16 works
  9. 9 France 15 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 12 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: 36.7%Russia: 17.2%United States: 11.2%Ukraine: 9.0%6 others listed: 26.0%37%largest
Germany166 · 36.7%Russia78 · 17.2%United States50 · 11.2%Ukraine41 · 9.0%6 others listed117 · 26.0%

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

Which institutions lead Philosophical and Historical Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Weatherford College publishes the most Philosophical and Historical Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 16 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  3. 3 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 7 works
  4. 4 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 5 works
  5. 5 Ruhr University BochumGermany 5 works
  6. 6 University of TübingenGermany 5 works
  7. 7 University of ViennaAustria 5 works
  8. 8 National University of Kyiv-Mohyla AcademyUkraine 5 works
  9. 9 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 5 works
  10. 10 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Philosophical and Historical Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Philosophical and Historical Studies include Niklas Luhmann.

  1. 1 Niklas Luhmann Germany 61k 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 Philosophical and Historical Studies?

The most cited paper in Philosophical and Historical Studies is "Legitimation durch Verfahren?" (Erhard Blankenburg, 1995), with 922 citations. Next come "A taste of the future" (710) and "The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism" (363).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Legitimation durch Verfahren? Erhard Blankenburg · Springer-Lehrbuch Book chapter 1995 922
2 A taste of the future Kenneth Richard Seddon · Nature Materials 30 May 2003 710
3 The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism Charles Larmore · The Journal of Philosophy Dec 1999 363
4 The Romantic Conception of Life. Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe Karl J. Fink, Robert J. Richards · Comparative Literature 2004 305
5 PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA Wiesław Andrzej Kamiński Conference paper 24 Jun 1988 269
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Philosophical and Historical Studies research done?

The largest centres of Philosophical and Historical Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Weatherford (United States) and Berlin (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kyiv and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 33 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 21 works
  3. 3 WeatherfordUnited States 16 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 15 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 10 works
  6. 6 Saint PetersburgRussia 8 works
  7. 7 Frankfurt am MainGermany 8 works
  8. 8 MunichGermany 8 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 7 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KyivUA · 21.3 works14×
  2. MoscowRU · 33.1 works5.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Philosophical and Historical Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Philosophical and Historical Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College 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.

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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 10.09.6%24.1×16 +66.8%

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 Philosophical and Historical Studies, country by country

Is Philosophical and Historical Studies 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 Philosophical and Historical Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Philosophical and Historical 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%Philosophical and Historical Studies10.3% in 202520102020

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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