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Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of ethics, philosophy, and religious studies, with a focus on the works of Levinas and Derrida. It delves into topics such as responsibility, hospitality, Jewish philosophy, and the ethics of dialogue and community.

  • Levinas
  • Derrida
  • ethics
  • philosophy
  • Jewish
  • responsibility
  • hospitality
  • religion
  • community
  • dialogue
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-16%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
36% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Which countries lead Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (535 and 214 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 535 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 214 works
  3. 3 Brazil 194 works
  4. 4 France 102 works
  5. 5 Canada 90 works
  6. 6 Germany 87 works
  7. 7 China 74 works
  8. 8 Italy 72 works
  9. 9 Australia 69 works
  10. 10 Spain 62 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: 35.7%United Kingdom: 14.3%Brazil: 12.9%France: 6.8%6 others listed: 30.3%36%largest
United States535 · 35.7%United Kingdom214 · 14.3%Brazil194 · 12.9%France102 · 6.8%6 others listed454 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Oxford publishes the most Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 17 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 KU LeuvenBelgium 14 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 12 works
  7. 7 University of CopenhagenDenmark 11 works
  8. 8 Charles UniversityCzechia 11 works
  9. 9 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 10 works
  10. 10 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 10 works

Who are the leading researchers in Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism include Michel Foucault, Michael J. Mack and Murray B. Stein.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Michael J. Mack United States 154k citations
  3. 3 Murray B. Stein United States 145k citations
  4. 4 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  5. 5 James J. Collins United States 118k citations
  6. 6 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 Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism?

The most cited paper in Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism is "Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence" (Carrie Heeter, 1992), with 1,355 citations. Next come "Deconstruction and Criticism" (959) and "Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics" (932).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Being There: The Subjective Experience of Presence Carrie Heeter · PRESENCE Virtual and Augmented Reality 1992 1,355
2 Deconstruction and Criticism Monroe Curtis Beardsley, Harold Bloom, Paul de Man et al. · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1980 959
3 Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics Luc Boltanski, Graham Burchell 1999 932
4 Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Charles Taylor Book chapter 1973 869
5 Phenomenology of Practice Max van Manen · Phenomenology & Practice Open access 28 Oct 2007 816
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Where is Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research done?

The largest centres of Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Los Angeles (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 43 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 43 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 37 works
  4. 4 Los AngelesUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 27 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 20 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 19 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 19 works
  10. 10 OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
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Where is the best place to study Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, KU Leuven and University of Warwick 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.

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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 OxfordUnited Kingdom 75.816.9%6.2×17 -19.7%
2KU LeuvenBelgium 75.120.7%7.1×14 -48.4%
3University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 67.824.4%10.5×10 -5.1%
4University of CopenhagenDenmark 62.312.9%5.7×11 +81.1%
5University of ChicagoUnited States 55.06.7%7.2×12 +45.1%
6Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 48.213.1%6.9×8 +125.0%
7University of British ColumbiaCanada 42.813.0%3.8×9 -43.0%
8Charles UniversityCzechia 42.23.9%11.3×11 -18.7%
9Monash UniversityAustralia 41.19.2%4.5×9 +2.0%
10New York UniversityUnited States 39.64.3%4.1×9 +5.9%

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 Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, country by country

Is Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 16% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0096% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism 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%Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism10.2% 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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