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Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 8.8k research works in it since 1962. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on memory studies, cultural identity formation, and the role of rituals, narratives, and education in shaping collective memory. It explores the impact of historical events such as the Holocaust on communities and investigates the intersection of memory, identity, and cultural practices.

  • Memory
  • Identity
  • Cultural
  • Ritual
  • History
  • Narrative
  • Community
  • Holocaust
  • Education
  • Ethnography
Research works
8.8k
fractional, since 1962
In the world top 10%
867
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
83% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies

Which countries lead Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (2k and 113 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 2k works
  2. 2 United States 113 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 76 works
  4. 4 Czechia 37 works
  5. 5 Germany 37 works
  6. 6 Lithuania 37 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 28 works
  8. 8 Russia 27 works
  9. 9 France 21 works
  10. 10 Israel 16 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: 83.4%United States: 4.8%Ukraine: 3.2%Czechia: 1.6%6 others listed: 7.0%83%largest
Poland1,979 · 83.4%United States113 · 4.8%Ukraine76 · 3.2%Czechia37 · 1.6%6 others listed166 · 7.0%

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

Which institutions lead Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research, followed by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and Polish Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 185 works
  2. 2 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 184 works
  3. 3 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 182 works
  4. 4 University of WarsawPoland 177 works
  5. 5 University of ŁódźPoland 120 works
  6. 6 University of WrocławPoland 81 works
  7. 7 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 81 works
  8. 8 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 70 works
  9. 9 University of GdańskPoland 65 works
  10. 10 Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityPoland 55 works

Who are the leading researchers in Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies include Michel Foucault, David Hume and Tim James Cole.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 David Hume Australia 107k citations
  3. 3 Tim James Cole United Kingdom 103k citations
  4. 4 M. Roth Germany 61k 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-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies?

The most cited paper in Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies is "Memory Unbound" (Daniel C. Levy, Natan Sznaider, 2002), with 462 citations. Next come "Confidentiality in Qualitative Research Involving Vulnerable Participants: Researchers' Perspectives" (117) and "Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, an Essay in Historical Interpretation" (102).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Memory Unbound Daniel C. Levy, Natan Sznaider · European Journal of Social Theory Feb 2002 462
2 Confidentiality in Qualitative Research Involving Vulnerable Participants: Researchers' Perspectives Adrianna Surmiak · Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) Open access 8 Jun 2018 117
3 Fear: Anti-Semitism in Poland after Auschwitz, an Essay in Historical Interpretation Dariusz Stola · The English Historical Review 21 Dec 2007 102
4 Reconciliation through the Righteous: The Narratives of Heroic Helpers as a Fulfillment of Emotional Needs in Polish−Jewish Intergroup Contact Michał Bilewicz, Manana Jaworska · Journal of Social Issues Mar 2013 90
5 Hierarchies of Knowledge in Central-Eastern European Anthropology Michał Buchowski · Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University) Open access 2004 89
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research done?

The largest centres of Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Poznań (Poland) and Lublin (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Toruń, Bydgoszcz and Katowice.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 484 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 317 works
  3. 3 PoznańPoland 195 works
  4. 4 LublinPoland 143 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 129 works
  6. 6 KatowicePoland 119 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 89 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 77 works
  9. 9 ToruńPoland 63 works
  10. 10 SzczecinPoland 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ToruńPL · 63.5 works105×
  2. BydgoszczPL · 37.0 works99×
  3. KatowicePL · 119.4 works93×
  4. PoznańPL · 195.4 works85×
  5. ŁódźPL · 129.0 works83×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies than the world average.

See Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Uniwersytet SWPS, University of Łódź and University of Warsaw 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 11.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Uniwersytet SWPSUniversity of ŁódźUniversity of Silesi…University of Warsaw
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 62.821.0%111.7×15 +17.9%
2University of ŁódźPoland 61.311.3%200.1×120 +2.8%
3University of WarsawPoland 58.59.7%163.3×177 -16.6%
4University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 56.611.0%160.4×70 +7.9%
5Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 55.39.7%131.1×185 -13.9%
6Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 51.39.5%215.1×184 -16.0%
7Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 48.210.3%198.0×81 -28.2%
8University of WrocławPoland 46.210.0%187.4×81 -26.5%
9The Maria Grzegorzewska UniversityPoland 46.18.3%116.1×10 +39.3%
10University of SzczecinPoland 43.710.4%132.4×40 +11.8%

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 Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies, country by country

Is Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory 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-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies9.7% in 202520102020

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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