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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. 10.2% 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
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+4%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Poetry Analysis and Criticism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (521 and 202 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 521 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 202 works
  3. 3 China 112 works
  4. 4 France 59 works
  5. 5 India 56 works
  6. 6 Canada 47 works
  7. 7 Australia 36 works
  8. 8 Iraq 29 works
  9. 9 Germany 24 works
  10. 10 Russia 24 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: 46.9%United Kingdom: 18.2%China: 10.1%France: 5.3%6 others listed: 19.5%47%largest
United States521 · 46.9%United Kingdom202 · 18.2%China112 · 10.1%France59 · 5.3%6 others listed216 · 19.5%

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

Which institutions lead Poetry Analysis and Criticism research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Film Independent publishes the most Poetry Analysis and Criticism research, followed by University of Cambridge and Florida State University.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Film IndependentUnited States 23 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 21 works
  3. 3 Florida State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  5. 5 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 Cornell UniversityUnited States 11 works
  7. 7 University of IowaUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Princeton UniversityUnited States 8 works
  9. 9 University of VirginiaUnited States 7 works
  10. 10 New York UniversityUnited States 7 works

Where is Poetry Analysis and Criticism research done?

The largest centres of Poetry Analysis and Criticism research in 2022–2025 are London (United Kingdom), Los Angeles (United States), New York (United States) and Cambridge (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Cambridge, Oxford and Los Angeles.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 30 works
  2. 2 Los Angeles United States 30 works
  3. 3 New York United States 29 works
  4. 4 Cambridge United Kingdom 22 works
  5. 5 Oxford United Kingdom 22 works
  6. 6 Beijing China 20 works
  7. 7 Tallahassee United States 18 works
  8. 8 Paris France 18 works
  9. 9 Toronto Canada 13 works
  10. 10 Moscow Russia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CambridgeGB · 22.3 works9.2×
  2. OxfordGB · 21.8 works8.2×
  3. Los AngelesUS · 29.5 works6.8×
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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 Cambridge, Florida State University and University of Oxford 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%5%10%mean 3.22857%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Cambridge: 21, 0.0%Florida State University: 18, 9.3%University of Oxford: 18, 1.9%University of Iowa: 10, 6.7%Princeton University: 8, 0.0%Purdue University West Lafayette: 12, 0.0%Cornell University: 11, 4.7%Florida State Univer…University of IowaUniversity of OxfordUniversity of Cambri…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 67.70.0%13.1×21 +166.3%
2 Florida State UniversityUnited States 59.69.3%38.7×18 +6.5%
3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 50.51.9%9.4×18 +4.5%
4 University of IowaUnited States 40.56.7%16.1×10 -52.5%
5 Princeton UniversityUnited States 35.70.0%12.6×8 +27.2%
6 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 26.30.0%8.4×12 +34.3%
7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 19.94.7%7.2×11 -4.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Poetry Analysis and Criticism research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2010. The fastest-growing topics are Poetry Analysis and Criticism.

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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.