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Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 9.2k 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 explores the evolution of podcasting as a medium, its association with traditional radio, the motivations of podcast users, the impact of true crime podcasts, and the role of podcasting in digital publishing and journalism. It also delves into the social and cultural aspects of podcasting, user engagement, and the revival of audio storytelling.

  • Podcasting
  • Audio Storytelling
  • Radio Revival
  • True Crime
  • Digital Publishing
  • Social Media
  • Motivations
  • Journalism
  • User Engagement
  • Media Consumption
Research works
9.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
927
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media

Which countries lead Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (428 and 375 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 428 works
  2. 2 Brazil 375 works
  3. 3 Spain 370 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 117 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 112 works
  6. 6 Australia 84 works
  7. 7 Germany 80 works
  8. 8 Mexico 67 works
  9. 9 South Africa 64 works
  10. 10 Canada 60 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: 24.4%Brazil: 21.3%Spain: 21.0%Indonesia: 6.7%6 others listed: 26.6%24%largest
United States428 · 24.4%Brazil375 · 21.3%Spain370 · 21.0%Indonesia117 · 6.7%6 others listed468 · 26.6%

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

Which institutions lead Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research?

By volume in 2022-now, Conversation Africa publishes the most Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universidad de Málaga.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Conversation AfricaSouth Africa 37 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 29 works
  3. 3 Universidad de MálagaSpain 29 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 20 works
  5. 5 Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain 20 works
  6. 6 Universidad de SevillaSpain 17 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 15 works
  8. 8 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 14 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 13 works
  10. 10 University of the Basque CountrySpain 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media include R. W. Moore and Subir Sarkar.

  1. 1 R. W. Moore Australia 145k citations
  2. 2 Subir Sarkar Germany 143k 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 Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media?

The most cited paper in Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media is "Entre o passado e o futuro" (Guilherme Carvalho, Mauri König, 2017), with 1,814 citations. Next come "Findings on Facebook in higher education: A comparison of college faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking sites" (1,302) and "The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education" (858).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Entre o passado e o futuro Guilherme Carvalho, Mauri König · Alceu Open access 10 Jun 2017 1,814
2 Findings on Facebook in higher education: A comparison of college faculty and student uses and perceptions of social networking sites M. D. Roblyer, Michelle R. McDaniel, Marsena Webb et al. · The Internet and Higher Education 25 Mar 2010 1,302
3 The effectiveness of m-learning in the form of podcast revision lectures in higher education Chris Evans · Computers & Education Dec 2007 858
4 Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digital storytelling Nick Couldry · New Media & Society Open access 19 May 2008 715
5 Ritualized and Instrumental Television Viewing ALAN M. RUBIN · Journal of Communication Sep 1984 680
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research done?

The largest centres of Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Johannesburg (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Málaga and Johannesburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 80 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 65 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 45 works
  4. 4 JohannesburgSouth Africa 41 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 33 works
  6. 6 Mexico CityMexico 30 works
  7. 7 MálagaSpain 29 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 24 works
  10. 10 SantiagoChile 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MálagaES · 28.8 works28×
  2. JohannesburgZA · 40.9 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Universidad de Málaga 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 16.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat Autònoma…Universidad Rey Juan…Universidad de GranadaUniversidad de Málaga
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.

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
1Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain 78.120.6%36.2×20 +22.0%
2Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 70.726.2%9.9×14 -12.4%
3Universidad de MálagaSpain 69.87.1%42.4×29 +57.7%
4Universidad de GranadaSpain 67.820.3%10.5×13 +65.5%
5Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain 66.922.3%18.9×13 -31.5%
6Griffith UniversityAustralia 61.114.1%9.2×8 +325.7%
7Universidad de SevillaSpain 58.413.0%14.1×18 -1.8%
8Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 58.18.4%15.2×29 -18.0%
9Universidad de NavarraSpain 52.515.1%15.1×9 -13.6%
10University of the Basque CountrySpain 48.913.4%12.7×13 -23.8%

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 Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media, country by country

Is Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media.

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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 Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media 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%Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media10.2% 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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