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Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 4k research works in it since 1951. 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 Bakhtinian and Vygotskian theories in education, emphasizing the role of dialogue, pedagogy, and agency. It delves into the cultural and ethical dimensions of literature, identity, and the individual within social contexts.

  • Bakhtin
  • dialogue
  • education
  • pedagogy
  • Vygotsky
  • literature
  • agency
  • cultural
  • ethics
  • identity
Research works
4k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
414
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies

Which countries lead Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (318 and 154 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 318 works
  2. 2 United States 154 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 60 works
  4. 4 Brazil 50 works
  5. 5 China 34 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 31 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 24 works
  8. 8 Poland 23 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 21 works
  10. 10 France 21 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.

Russia: 43.3%United States: 21.0%United Kingdom: 8.1%Brazil: 6.8%6 others listed: 20.8%43%largest
Russia318 · 43.3%United States154 · 21.0%United Kingdom60 · 8.1%Brazil50 · 6.8%6 others listed153 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research, followed by Russian State University for the Humanities and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 76 works
  2. 2 Russian State University for the HumanitiesRussia 20 works
  3. 3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 13 works
  5. 5 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 11 works
  6. 6 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  7. 7 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 11 works
  8. 8 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 10 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 10 works
  10. 10 Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies include David G. Lowe.

  1. 1 David G. Lowe United Kingdom 115k 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 Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies?

The most cited paper in Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies is "A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s" (Donna Haraway, 1994), with 2,045 citations. Next come "Recombinant selves in mass mediated spacetime" (446) and "What Is Dialogical Research, and Why Should We Do It?" (379).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A manifesto for cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s Donna Haraway · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 25 Nov 1994 2,045
2 Recombinant selves in mass mediated spacetime Asif Agha · Language & Communication 31 Mar 2007 446
3 What Is Dialogical Research, and Why Should We Do It? Arthur W. Frank · Qualitative Health Research 10 Aug 2005 379
4 Advances in applied mechanics Satyanadham Atluri · Journal of the Franklin Institute Sep 1973 349
5 Chronotopic Lamination: Tracing the Contours of Literate Activity Paul A. Prior, Jody Shipka · The WAC Clearinghouse; Mind, Culture, and Activity eBooks Book chapterOpen access Feb 2003 298
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Where is Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research done?

The largest centres of Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Weatherford (United States) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 139 works
  2. 2 Saint PetersburgRussia 42 works
  3. 3 WeatherfordUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 14 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  6. 6 KyivUkraine 12 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  8. 8 Los AngelesUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 TashkentUzbekistan 11 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Saint PetersburgRU · 41.9 works15×
  2. MoscowRU · 139.4 works13×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Russian State University for the Humanities, Weatherford College and University of Cambridge 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%mean 8.55%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Weatherford CollegeUniversity of Cambri…Russian State Univer…St Petersburg Univer…
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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
1Russian State University for the HumanitiesRussia 68.17.7%360.9×20 +336.1%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 64.29.5%12.0×15 +142.0%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 62.88.0%10.2×11 +267.8%
4St Petersburg UniversityRussia 55.87.6%30.5×14 +54.3%
5Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 54.57.9%41.6×10 +20.5%
6National Research Mordovia State UniversityRussia 51.015.8%120.6×8 -8.7%
7Petrozavodsk State UniversityRussia 50.317.2%219.5×8 -28.8%
8Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 48.04.4%14.5×12 +28.4%
9National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 33.07.0%28.8×11 -44.1%
10Universidade de São PauloBrazil 16.90.4%5.1×10 -42.8%

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 Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies, country by country

Is Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies.

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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 Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0035% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies0.0048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies 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%Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies10.7% 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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