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Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

Polish Historical and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% 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 related to the history, politics, and cultural dynamics of Poland, including the post-World War II period, political transformations, nationalism, Soviet influence, ethnic relations, and religious dynamics. It also delves into the Polish minority, Eastern European context, and the cultural discourse surrounding these themes.

  • Polish history
  • Polish minority
  • Eastern Europe
  • Post-World War II
  • Political transformations
  • Nationalism
  • Soviet Union
  • Cultural discourse
  • Religious dynamics
  • Ethnic relations
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
84% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Polish Historical and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, Poland and Ukraine publish the most (4.8k and 232 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 4.8k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 232 works
  3. 3 United States 229 works
  4. 4 Russia 103 works
  5. 5 Czechia 93 works
  6. 6 Germany 72 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 68 works
  8. 8 Romania 45 works
  9. 9 Lithuania 40 works
  10. 10 France 37 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.

Poland: 84.0%Ukraine: 4.0%United States: 4.0%Russia: 1.8%6 others listed: 6.2%84%largest
Poland4,844 · 84.0%Ukraine232 · 4.0%United States229 · 4.0%Russia103 · 1.8%6 others listed356 · 6.2%

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

Which institutions lead Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Polish Academy of Sciences publishes the most Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research, followed by Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 483 works
  2. 2 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 410 works
  3. 3 University of WarsawPoland 360 works
  4. 4 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 349 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 244 works
  6. 6 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 198 works
  7. 7 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 177 works
  8. 8 University of WrocławPoland 158 works
  9. 9 Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 139 works
  10. 10 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 130 works

Who are the leading researchers in Polish Historical and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Polish Historical and Cultural Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Adam Torbicki.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Adam Torbicki Poland 134k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k 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 Polish Historical and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Polish Historical and Cultural Studies is "God's Playground: A History of Poland" (R. F. Leslie, 1982), with 303 citations. Next come "Racism and Migration in Western Europe." (266) and "Skala samooceny SES Morrisa Rosenberga – polska adaptacja metody" (207).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 God's Playground: A History of Poland R. F. Leslie · International Affairs 1982 303
2 Racism and Migration in Western Europe. Marco Martiniello, John Wrench, John Solomos · International Migration Review 1995 266
3 Skala samooceny SES Morrisa Rosenberga – polska adaptacja metody Irena Dzwonkowska, Kinga Lachowicz‐Tabaczek, Mariola Łaguna · Social Psychological Bulletin Open access 2007 207
4 National Identity and Foreign Policy: Nationalism and Leadership in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine Robert Legvold, Ilya Prizel · Foreign Affairs 1999 179
5 The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914 Wilma Abeles Iggers, Gary B. Cohen · New German Critique 1983 174
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Lublin (Poland) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kalisz, Słupsk and Siedlce.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 1.3k works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 788 works
  3. 3 LublinPoland 423 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 385 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 277 works
  6. 6 WrocławPoland 203 works
  7. 7 KatowicePoland 185 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 164 works
  9. 9 ToruńPoland 158 works
  10. 10 OlsztynPoland 127 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KaliszPL · 23.4 works341×
  2. SłupskPL · 29.4 works218×
  3. SiedlcePL · 28.1 works140×
  4. OpavaCZ · 28.4 works131×
  5. ToruńPL · 158.3 works109×
  6. LublinPL · 422.6 works99×
  7. OpolePL · 73.2 works97×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Polish Historical and Cultural Studies than the world average.

See Polish Historical and Cultural Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Polish Historical and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Uniwersytet SWPS, Jagiellonian University and University of Warsaw score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 14.5%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Uniwersytet SWPSUniversity of WarsawUniversity of ŁódźJagiellonian Univers…
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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.

Citation 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
1Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 63.022.4%68.9×22 +14.8%
2Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 62.79.7%121.5×410 +0.9%
3University of WarsawPoland 62.211.2%139.0×360 -12.4%
4University of ŁódźPoland 58.611.1%169.4×244 -0.6%
5War Studies AcademyPoland 57.320.9%271.1×24 +4.8%
6University of SzczecinPoland 55.011.1%138.1×100 +36.1%
7Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 54.910.0%169.8×348 -19.2%
8University of RzeszówPoland 53.09.2%130.3×103 +4.5%
9Charles UniversityCzechia 52.527.8%3.4×8 -28.5%
10Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 52.211.6%181.3×177 -20.9%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Polish Historical and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Polish Historical and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% 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 Polish Historical and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.030% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Polish Historical and Cultural Studies0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Polish Historical and Cultural 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%Polish Historical and Cultural Studies9.6% 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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