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Psychoanalysis and Social Critique

Psychoanalysis and Social Critique is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 8.6k 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 covers a wide range of topics including psychoanalysis, social theory, religion, gender studies, philosophy, ethics, sociology, literature analysis, political science, and history. It reflects an interdisciplinary approach to understanding cultural and social thought.

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Social Theory
  • Religion
  • Gender Studies
  • Philosophy
  • Ethics
  • Sociology
  • Literature Analysis
  • Political Science
  • History
Research works
8.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
856
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
66% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Psychoanalysis and Social Critique

Which countries lead Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (741 and 100 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 741 works
  2. 2 Austria 100 works
  3. 3 United States 85 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 52 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 28 works
  6. 6 Italy 26 works
  7. 7 Brazil 26 works
  8. 8 Russia 26 works
  9. 9 France 22 works
  10. 10 Poland 22 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.

Germany: 65.6%Austria: 8.9%United States: 7.5%Switzerland: 4.6%6 others listed: 13.3%66%largest
Germany741 · 65.6%Austria100 · 8.9%United States85 · 7.5%Switzerland52 · 4.6%6 others listed151 · 13.3%

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

Which institutions lead Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research?

By volume in 2022-now, Praxis publishes the most Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research, followed by University of Vienna and University of Cologne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 PraxisEstonia 18 works
  2. 2 University of ViennaAustria 17 works
  3. 3 University of CologneGermany 17 works
  4. 4 University of MünsterGermany 15 works
  5. 5 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 14 works
  6. 6 University of FreiburgGermany 14 works
  7. 7 Ruhr University BochumGermany 13 works
  8. 8 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 12 works
  9. 9 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 12 works
  10. 10 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Psychoanalysis and Social Critique?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Psychoanalysis and Social Critique include Pierre Bourdıeu, Wolfgang K. Huber and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Murray B. Stein United States 145k 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 Psychoanalysis and Social Critique?

The most cited paper in Psychoanalysis and Social Critique is "Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie" (Katrin Grimm, Katja Mackowiak, 2009), with 1,029 citations. Next come "Strukturen der Lebenswelt" (535) and "Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir. La naissance de la prison, Editions Gallimard: Paris 1975, 318 S. (dt. Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt 1976, 397 S.)" (426).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie Katrin Grimm, Katja Mackowiak 2009 1,029
2 Strukturen der Lebenswelt Gerhard Preyer Book chapter 2018 535
3 Michel Foucault: Surveiller et punir. La naissance de la prison, Editions Gallimard: Paris 1975, 318 S. (dt. Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses, Suhrkamp: Frankfurt 1976, 397 S.) Markus Schroer · Klassiker der Sozialwissenschaften Book chapter 2016 426
4 The patient's experience of the analyst's subjectivity Lewis Aron · Psychoanalytic Dialogues 1991 417
5 Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization of Experience Jürgen Raab · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2022 410
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Where is Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research done?

The largest centres of Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Hamburg (Germany) and Munich (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Münster.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 75 works
  2. 2 ViennaAustria 53 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 42 works
  4. 4 MunichGermany 41 works
  5. 5 CologneGermany 36 works
  6. 6 Frankfurt am MainGermany 31 works
  7. 7 MünsterGermany 28 works
  8. 8 BochumGermany 22 works
  9. 9 ZurichSwitzerland 22 works
  10. 10 HeidelbergGermany 19 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MünsterDE · 27.6 works38×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Psychoanalysis and Social Critique than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Psychoanalysis and Social Critique?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vienna, Heidelberg University and University of Cologne 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 12.68%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Heidelberg UniversityUniversity of ViennaGoethe University Fr…University of Cologne
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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 ViennaAustria 83.916.4%30.8×17 +43.6%
2Heidelberg UniversityGermany 65.619.3%13.6×12 -7.7%
3University of CologneGermany 58.46.6%34.4×17 -0.7%
4Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 57.78.5%28.0×14 -8.9%
5University of GöttingenGermany 55.821.9%20.2×8 +103.8%
6Friedrich Schiller University JenaGermany 52.414.9%30.6×11 -5.3%
7Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 52.314.5%29.6×12 -13.1%
8University of FreiburgGermany 50.810.2%26.2×14 -18.3%
9Bielefeld UniversityGermany 49.27.2%46.7×12 +57.5%
10University of MünsterGermany 45.67.3%31.6×15 -36.8%

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 Psychoanalysis and Social Critique, country by country

Is Psychoanalysis and Social Critique research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022.

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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 Psychoanalysis and Social Critique as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0045% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Psychoanalysis and Social Critique0.0044% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Psychoanalysis and Social Critique 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%Psychoanalysis and Social Critique9.3% 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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