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Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

Reformation and Early Modern Christianity is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 43k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses a wide range of topics related to the Reformation, Calvinism, religious controversy, church history, and social and cultural dynamics in Early Modern Europe. It explores the theological, political, and societal implications of the Reformation movement and its influence on various aspects of European life during that period.

  • Reformation
  • Calvinism
  • Religious Controversy
  • Church History
  • Early Modern Europe
  • Theology
  • Biblical Scholarship
  • Political Polarization
  • Social History
  • Cultural Identity
Research works
43k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
40% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

Which countries lead Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.8k and 901 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 901 works
  3. 3 Germany 480 works
  4. 4 France 331 works
  5. 5 Netherlands 215 works
  6. 6 Italy 202 works
  7. 7 Canada 168 works
  8. 8 Australia 118 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 110 works
  10. 10 Belgium 102 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: 40.0%United Kingdom: 20.6%Germany: 11.0%France: 7.5%6 others listed: 20.9%40%largest
United States1,755 · 40.0%United Kingdom901 · 20.6%Germany480 · 11.0%France331 · 7.5%6 others listed916 · 20.9%

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

Which institutions lead Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Oxford publishes the most Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Cambridge.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 96 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 83 works
  3. 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 73 works
  4. 4 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 55 works
  5. 5 Film IndependentUnited States 44 works
  6. 6 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 41 works
  7. 7 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 36 works
  8. 8 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 35 works
  9. 9 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States 34 works
  10. 10 KU LeuvenBelgium 32 works

Who are the leading researchers in Reformation and Early Modern Christianity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Reformation and Early Modern Christianity include George Davey Smith, Wolfgang K. Huber and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Wolfgang K. Huber Germany 239k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k 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 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity?

The most cited paper in Reformation and Early Modern Christianity is "Justification and truth" (Stewart Cohen, 1984), with 710 citations. Next come "From Passions to Emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category" (567) and "Secularization, R.I.P." (558).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Justification and truth Stewart Cohen · Philosophical Studies Nov 1984 710
2 From Passions to Emotions: The creation of a secular psychological category Dixon, Thomas 1973- · History & Philosophy of Psychology 2005 567
3 Secularization, R.I.P. Rodney Stark · Sociology of Religion 1999 558
4 Die Ordnung des Diskurses Michael Sellhoff · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2014 509
5 The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law and Church Law, 1150-1625 Cary Joseph Nederman, Brian Tierney · American Journal of Legal History Apr 1998 498
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research done?

The largest centres of Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), Oxford (United Kingdom) and Cambridge (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durham.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 140 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 120 works
  3. 3 OxfordUnited Kingdom 108 works
  4. 4 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 77 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 66 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 62 works
  7. 7 UtrechtNetherlands 57 works
  8. 8 DurhamUnited Kingdom 56 works
  9. 9 AmsterdamNetherlands 53 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 52 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DurhamGB · 55.8 works29×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Reformation and Early Modern Christianity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Reformation and Early Modern Christianity?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, Australian Catholic University and Durham University 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%20%40%mean 15.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Australian Catholic …University of Cambri…University of OxfordDurham University
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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
1University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 70.812.1%14.5×96 +1.5%
2Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia 66.436.4%17.8×8 +22.6%
3Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 65.59.5%32.2×55 +25.0%
4University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 63.113.5%13.0×73 -22.5%
5Leiden UniversityNetherlands 62.318.1%10.5×27 -3.0%
6University of HelsinkiFinland 54.715.2%6.3×20 +3.8%
7Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 54.19.7%10.8×36 -11.0%
8Ghent UniversityBelgium 53.79.1%5.7×20 +5.2%
9Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 53.222.0%11.2×21 -45.5%
10University of TübingenGermany 53.213.1%8.1×16 +29.3%

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 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, country by country

Is Reformation and Early Modern Christianity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Reformation and Early Modern Christianity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Reformation and Early Modern Christianity0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Reformation and Early Modern Christianity 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%Reformation and Early Modern Christianity9.5% 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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