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Samuel Beckett and Modernism

Samuel Beckett and Modernism is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 5.7k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the works, influence, and interpretations of Samuel Beckett, a prominent figure in modernist literature and theatre. The papers cover a wide range of topics including Beckett's writing style, philosophical themes, impact on modernism, and his contributions to the humanities.

  • Samuel Beckett
  • Modernism
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Language
  • Theatre
  • Postmodernism
  • Aesthetics
  • Critique
  • Humanities
Research works
5.7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
571
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
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Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Samuel Beckett and Modernism

Which countries lead Samuel Beckett and Modernism research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (241 and 155 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 241 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 155 works
  3. 3 France 45 works
  4. 4 Germany 37 works
  5. 5 China 31 works
  6. 6 Canada 27 works
  7. 7 India 26 works
  8. 8 Ireland 23 works
  9. 9 Australia 18 works
  10. 10 Italy 18 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: 38.8%United Kingdom: 24.9%France: 7.3%Germany: 5.9%6 others listed: 23.1%39%largest
United States241 · 38.8%United Kingdom155 · 24.9%France45 · 7.3%Germany37 · 5.9%6 others listed143 · 23.1%

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

Which institutions lead Samuel Beckett and Modernism research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Oxford publishes the most Samuel Beckett and Modernism research, followed by University of Cambridge and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 17 works
  2. 2 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 11 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 9 works
  5. 5 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 8 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  7. 7 Trinity College DublinIreland 7 works
  8. 8 University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 6 works
  9. 9 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 6 works
  10. 10 University of BristolUnited Kingdom 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Samuel Beckett and Modernism?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Samuel Beckett and Modernism include Michel Foucault and Judith Butler.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Judith Butler United States 116k 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 Samuel Beckett and Modernism?

The most cited paper in Samuel Beckett and Modernism is "The Empty Fortress" (M BETTELHEI, Donna M. Gelfand, 1967), with 477 citations. Next come "AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE?" (415) and "Time's arrow and archimedes' point" (346).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Empty Fortress M BETTELHEI, Donna M. Gelfand · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Apr 1967 477
2 AN INFLUENZA EPICENTRE? K. F. Shortridge, Charles H. Stuart-Harris · The Lancet Oct 1982 415
3 Time's arrow and archimedes' point Joel L. Lebowitz · Journal of Statistical Physics Apr 1997 346
4 Here and Now James W. Garson · The Monist 1969 283
5 Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays Stanley Cavell 1976 230
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Samuel Beckett and Modernism research done?

The largest centres of Samuel Beckett and Modernism research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Oxford (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Dublin (Ireland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  2. 2 OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 16 works
  4. 4 DublinIreland 15 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 14 works
  6. 6 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 12 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 9 works
  9. 9 MunichGermany 9 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 24.7 works3.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Samuel Beckett and Modernism than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Samuel Beckett and Modernism?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh 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.

0%5%10%mean 8.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Edinbu…University of Cambri…University of OxfordLudwig-Maximilians-U…
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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.

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 90.09.1%16.1×17 +38.8%
2University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 63.89.5%12.8×11 +40.5%
3University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 25.311.5%13.6×9 +134.5%
4Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 5.02.3%12.7×8 -

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 Samuel Beckett and Modernism, country by country

Is Samuel Beckett and Modernism research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Samuel Beckett and Modernism.

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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 Samuel Beckett and Modernism as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0033% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Samuel Beckett and Modernism 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%Samuel Beckett and Modernism9.6% 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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