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Poetry Analysis and Criticism

Poetry Analysis and Criticism is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the themes of modernist poetry, literary criticism, and the works of poets such as Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. It delves into topics related to American literature, poetic tradition, cultural identity, gender studies, postmodernism, and ecological aesthetics.

  • Modernist Poetry
  • Literary Criticism
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • American Literature
  • Poetic Tradition
  • Cultural Identity
  • Gender Studies
  • Postmodernism
  • Ecological Aesthetic
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
47% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Poetry Analysis and Criticism

Which countries lead Poetry Analysis and Criticism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (622 and 239 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 622 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 239 works
  3. 3 China 141 works
  4. 4 India 77 works
  5. 5 France 64 works
  6. 6 Canada 52 works
  7. 7 Australia 44 works
  8. 8 Germany 33 works
  9. 9 Iraq 33 works
  10. 10 Spain 28 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: 46.6%United Kingdom: 18.0%China: 10.6%India: 5.8%6 others listed: 19.1%47%largest
United States622 · 46.6%United Kingdom239 · 18.0%China141 · 10.6%India77 · 5.8%6 others listed254 · 19.1%

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

Which institutions lead Poetry Analysis and Criticism research?

By volume in 2022-now, Film Independent publishes the most Poetry Analysis and Criticism research, followed by University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 25 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 22 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 20 works
  4. 4 Florida State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 Cornell UniversityUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 University of IowaUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  9. 9 Princeton UniversityUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 University of VirginiaUnited States 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Poetry Analysis and Criticism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Poetry Analysis and Criticism include George Davey Smith.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k 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 Poetry Analysis and Criticism?

The most cited paper in Poetry Analysis and Criticism is "Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State" (Anthony P. Cohen, 1998), with 758 citations. Next come "Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End" (531) and "The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933)" (443).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics In the Nation‐State Anthony P. Cohen · American Ethnologist Feb 1998 758
2 Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End John Bender, Barbara Herrnstein Smith · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1970 531
3 The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) Jewel Spears Brooker · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 10 May 2004 443
4 Contemporary titans: Joseph Bolivar DeLee and John Whitridge Williams David N. Danforth · American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Nov 1974 375
5 Introduction: Inventing Traditions Piers Gray · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks Book chapter 1991 325
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Poetry Analysis and Criticism research done?

The largest centres of Poetry Analysis and Criticism research in 2022-now are Los Angeles (United States), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Oxford (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Oxford and Cambridge.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Los AngelesUnited States 34 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 33 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  4. 4 OxfordUnited Kingdom 25 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 23 works
  6. 6 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 23 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 18 works
  8. 8 TallahasseeUnited States 18 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 14 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. OxfordGB · 25.4 works8.1×
  2. CambridgeGB · 23.1 works8.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Poetry Analysis and Criticism than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Poetry Analysis and Criticism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Virginia 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 7.26667%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of OxfordFlorida State Univer…University of VirginiaUniversity of Cambri…
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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 72.29.3%9.2×20 +0.5%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 71.34.0%11.7×22 +70.0%
3University of VirginiaUnited States 60.04.6%9.0×9 +65.5%
4Florida State UniversityUnited States 45.75.0%33.0×18 +176.9%
5University of ChicagoUnited States 43.017.4%6.2×8 +40.6%
6Cornell UniversityUnited States 39.55.8%5.7×12 +190.4%
7Princeton UniversityUnited States 38.22.1%13.5×9 +14.3%
8University of IowaUnited States 37.712.0%13.3×10 +73.6%
9Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 36.15.2%8.4×12 +346.9%

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 Poetry Analysis and Criticism, country by country

Is Poetry Analysis and Criticism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Poetry Analysis 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 Poetry Analysis and Criticism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0068% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Poetry Analysis and Criticism0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Poetry Analysis 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%Poetry Analysis and Criticism9.8% 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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