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Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought

Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 3.1k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers revolves around the works and philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, focusing on topics such as education, compassion, the general will, citizenship, and the Enlightenment. It explores Rousseau's influence on storytelling, political theory, and his critique of inequality.

  • Rousseau
  • Enlightenment
  • Education
  • Philosophy
  • Social Contract
  • Compassion
  • General Will
  • Citizenship
  • Emile
  • Storytelling
Research works
3.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
316
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought

Which countries lead Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research?

By volume, the United States and France publish the most (107 and 87 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 107 works
  2. 2 France 87 works
  3. 3 Brazil 57 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 49 works
  5. 5 Russia 42 works
  6. 6 Germany 27 works
  7. 7 Spain 19 works
  8. 8 Poland 18 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 17 works
  10. 10 Canada 17 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%France: 19.8%Brazil: 13.0%United Kingdom: 11.1%6 others listed: 31.7%24%largest
United States107 · 24.4%France87 · 19.8%Brazil57 · 13.0%United Kingdom49 · 11.1%6 others listed139 · 31.7%

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

Which institutions lead Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research, followed by Universidade Federal de Goiás and University of Cambridge.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil 7 works
  3. 3 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 7 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 7 works
  5. 5 Technische Universität DarmstadtGermany 6 works
  6. 6 Université de LyonFrance 6 works
  7. 7 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 5 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil 4 works
  9. 9 Université Paris NanterreFrance 4 works
  10. 10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought include D. G. Charlton, David Hume and Thomas A. Wynn.

  1. 1 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  2. 2 David Hume Australia 107k citations
  3. 3 Thomas A. Wynn United States 77k citations
  4. 4 Émile Durkheim United States 64k citations
  5. 5 Pascal Bovet Switzerland 55k citations
  6. 6 David Adams United Kingdom 54k 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 Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought?

The most cited paper in Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought is "Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth‐Century France" (Keith Michael Baker, 2001), with 170 citations. Next come "Third-Wave Feminism and the Defense of “Choice”" (147) and "Figures de la domination" (124).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transformations of Classical Republicanism in Eighteenth‐Century France Keith Michael Baker · The Journal of Modern History Mar 2001 170
2 Third-Wave Feminism and the Defense of “Choice” R. Claire Snyder-Hall · Perspectives on Politics Mar 2010 147
3 Figures de la domination Danilo Martuccelli · Revue Française de Sociologie Open access Jul 2004 124
4 THE TAMING OF THE DUEL: MASCULINITY, HONOUR AND RITUAL VIOLENCE IN LONDON, 1660–1800 Robert Shoemaker · The Historical Journal Sep 2002 112
5 Men and Citizens: A Study of Rousseau's Social Theory, by Judith N. Shklar Stephen Ellenburg · Political Science Quarterly Jun 1971 108
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Where is Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research done?

The largest centres of Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Moscow (Russia), London (United Kingdom) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Paris and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 22 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 21 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 10 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  6. 6 GoiâniaBrazil 8 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  8. 8 LyonFrance 7 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 7 works
  10. 10 ChicagoUnited States 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ParisFR · 22.0 works4.5×
  2. MoscowRU · 20.9 works3.6×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought than the world average.

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Is Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019. The fastest-growing topics are Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought 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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Which topics inside it are moving

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