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Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment is a research topic within Religious studies. Science Explorer counts 4.9k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of religion, feminism, and social justice, with a focus on the works of Mary Wollstonecraft and the history of Quakerism. It delves into topics such as gender equality, religious conversion, violence against women, and the role of Christianity in promoting social justice.

  • Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Quakerism
  • Feminism
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • Violence
  • Equality
  • Christianity
  • Conversion
  • Social Justice
Research works
4.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
503
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

Which countries lead Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (300 and 137 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 300 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 137 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 65 works
  4. 4 France 49 works
  5. 5 Canada 41 works
  6. 6 Nigeria 39 works
  7. 7 South Africa 32 works
  8. 8 India 31 works
  9. 9 Australia 24 works
  10. 10 Germany 24 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: 40.5%United Kingdom: 18.5%Indonesia: 8.8%France: 6.6%6 others listed: 25.6%41%largest
United States300 · 40.5%United Kingdom137 · 18.5%Indonesia65 · 8.8%France49 · 6.6%6 others listed190 · 25.6%

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

Which institutions lead Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jakarta Theological Seminary publishes the most Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research, followed by University of Oxford and Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jakarta Theological SeminaryIndonesia 13 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 13 works
  3. 3 Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu SurabayaIndonesia 12 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 6 works
  7. 7 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 University of Notre DameUnited States 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment include George Davey Smith and Michael E. Porter.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Michael E. Porter United States 165k 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 Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment?

The most cited paper in Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment is "The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science" (Margaret W. Rossiter, 1993), with 986 citations. Next come "The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity" (818) and "Women's Trials: The Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive Pill in the United States and Great Britain" (460).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science Margaret W. Rossiter · Social Studies of Science May 1993 986
2 The Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Joel Robbins · Annual Review of Anthropology Review Oct 2004 818
3 Women's Trials: The Approval of the First Oral Contraceptive Pill in the United States and Great Britain Suzanne White Junod · Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Apr 2002 460
4 On Qualculation, Agency, and Otherness Michel Callon, John Easton Law · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Oct 2005 444
5 John Locke, Carolina, and the Two Treatises of Government David Armitage · Political Theory 7 Sep 2004 385
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Where is Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research done?

The largest centres of Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Jakarta (Indonesia), Paris (France) and Oxford (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 20 works
  2. 2 JakartaIndonesia 16 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 15 works
  4. 4 OxfordUnited Kingdom 15 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 13 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 ChicagoUnited States 9 works
  8. 8 PretoriaSouth Africa 9 works
  9. 9 Los AngelesUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 BirminghamUnited Kingdom 8 works
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Where is the best place to study Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu Surabaya and Jakarta Theological Seminary 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.

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 76.44.9%10.8×12 +35.3%
2Institut Sains dan Teknologi Terpadu SurabayaIndonesia 39.47.7%51.9×12 -
3Jakarta Theological SeminaryIndonesia 35.04.8%144.1×13 -

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 Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment, country by country

Is Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment.

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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 Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment 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.

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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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