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Philosophical Thought and Analysis

Philosophical Thought and Analysis is a research topic within General Social Sciences. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% 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 in philosophy, social sciences, education, innovation, ethics, economics, history, culture, society, and technology. It reflects a diverse exploration of human thought and behavior across different disciplines.

  • Philosophy
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Innovation
  • Ethics
  • Economics
  • History
  • Culture
  • Society
  • Technology
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Philosophical Thought and Analysis

Which countries lead Philosophical Thought and Analysis research?

By volume, Spain and Brazil publish the most (422 and 285 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 422 works
  2. 2 Brazil 285 works
  3. 3 Argentina 205 works
  4. 4 Mexico 204 works
  5. 5 Chile 155 works
  6. 6 Colombia 111 works
  7. 7 United States 61 works
  8. 8 Peru 49 works
  9. 9 Germany 40 works
  10. 10 Italy 33 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.

Spain: 27.0%Brazil: 18.2%Argentina: 13.1%Mexico: 13.0%6 others listed: 28.7%27%largest
Spain422 · 27.0%Brazil285 · 18.2%Argentina205 · 13.1%Mexico204 · 13.0%6 others listed449 · 28.7%

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

Which institutions lead Philosophical Thought and Analysis research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Buenos Aires publishes the most Philosophical Thought and Analysis research, followed by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 52 works
  2. 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 51 works
  3. 3 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 47 works
  4. 4 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 47 works
  5. 5 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 45 works
  6. 6 Universidad de SevillaSpain 28 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 27 works
  8. 8 University of ChileChile 26 works
  9. 9 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 22 works
  10. 10 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Philosophical Thought and Analysis?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Philosophical Thought and Analysis include Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky and Judith Butler.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  4. 4 David Hume Australia 107k citations
  5. 5 Steven Weinberg United States 105k citations
  6. 6 Jean Piaget Switzerland 104k 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 Thought and Analysis?

The most cited paper in Philosophical Thought and Analysis is "Hegel's Phenomenology: the Sociality of Reason." (Sally S. Sedgwick, Terry Pinkard, 1995), with 339 citations. Next come "The Labyrinth of Solitude. Life and Thought in Mexico." (265) and "El error de Descartes." (253).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hegel's Phenomenology: the Sociality of Reason. Sally S. Sedgwick, Terry Pinkard · The Philosophical Quarterly Oct 1995 339
2 The Labyrinth of Solitude. Life and Thought in Mexico. Irving A. Leonard, Octavio Paz, Lysander Kemp · Hispanic American Historical Review Nov 1962 265
3 El error de Descartes. António R. Damásio · Revista de filosofía Open access 19 Oct 2016 253
4 El existencialismo es un humanismo Omar Aruzamen · Aportes Open access 30 Mar 1997 207
5 Some Pragmatist Themes in Hegel's Idealism: Negotiation and Administration in Hegel's Account of the Structure and Content of Conceptual Norms Robert B. Brandom · European Journal of Philosophy Aug 1999 186
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Philosophical Thought and Analysis research done?

The largest centres of Philosophical Thought and Analysis research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Santiago (Chile) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Puebla City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 156 works
  2. 2 Buenos AiresArgentina 110 works
  3. 3 SantiagoChile 94 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 91 works
  5. 5 São PauloBrazil 48 works
  6. 6 BogotáColombia 42 works
  7. 7 LimaPeru 37 works
  8. 8 SevilleSpain 33 works
  9. 9 BarcelonaSpain 29 works
  10. 10 ValenciaSpain 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Puebla CityMX · 24.7 works46×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Philosophical Thought and Analysis than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Philosophical Thought and Analysis?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de València, Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad Diego Portales 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%20%40%mean 21.25%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat de Valèn…Universidad de SevillaUniversidad Diego Po…Universidad de Bueno…
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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
1Universitat de ValènciaSpain 64.220.4%26.4×22 +9.8%
2Universidad de SevillaSpain 63.819.3%32.3×28 +2.9%
3Universidad Diego PortalesChile 62.118.5%170.6×15 +47.1%
4Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 62.014.1%85.1×52 -28.1%
5Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 59.420.3%28.5×14 -7.3%
6Universidad de MálagaSpain 58.939.5%23.6×11 -36.3%
7Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 58.711.6%35.2×47 -4.0%
8Universidad de NavarraSpain 57.836.2%27.1×11 -84.8%
9Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 57.15.8%31.2×47 +5.4%
10Pontificia Universidad Católica ArgentinaArgentina 52.826.8%133.3×8 +22.6%

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 Thought and Analysis, country by country

Is Philosophical Thought and Analysis research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Thought and Analysis as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0085% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Philosophical Thought and Analysis0.0065% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Philosophical Thought and Analysis 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 Thought and Analysis10.0% 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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