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Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies

Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 981 research works in it since 1951. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the Inquisition, identity, and religious persecution in early modern Europe, with a focus on the experiences of Sephardic Jews, Crypto-Jews, and Conversos. It delves into the cultural history and religious dissent in colonial Latin America, shedding light on the complex dynamics of identity and faith during this period.

  • Inquisition
  • Identity
  • Sephardic Jews
  • Crypto-Jews
  • Early Modern Europe
  • Religious Dissent
  • Cultural History
  • Conversos
  • Persecution
  • Colonial Latin America
Research works
981
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
102
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+34%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies

Which countries lead Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research?

By volume, Spain and the United States publish the most (79 and 58 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 79 works
  2. 2 United States 58 works
  3. 3 Israel 19 works
  4. 4 France 18 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 16 works
  6. 6 Germany 9 works
  7. 7 Italy 9 works
  8. 8 Mexico 9 works
  9. 9 Brazil 8 works
  10. 10 Portugal 8 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.

Spain: 33.9%United States: 25.0%Israel: 8.1%France: 7.6%6 others listed: 25.4%34%largest
Spain79 · 33.9%United States58 · 25.0%Israel19 · 8.1%France18 · 7.6%6 others listed59 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Valladolid publishes the most Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research, followed by Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Bar-Ilan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de ValladolidSpain 7 works
  2. 2 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 6 works
  3. 3 Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael 6 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 6 works
  5. 5 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 5 works
  6. 6 Universidad de GranadaSpain 5 works
  7. 7 Real Academia EspañolaSpain 4 works
  8. 8 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 4 works
  9. 9 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 3 works
  10. 10 Tel Aviv UniversityIsrael 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies include J. Friedman, David Hill and John Ernest Edwards.

  1. 1 J. Friedman United States 47k citations
  2. 2 David Hill United States 46k citations
  3. 3 John Ernest Edwards United States 43k 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 Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies?

The most cited paper in Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies is "A History of the Jews in Christian Spain" (Vicente Cantarino, 1967), with 286 citations. Next come "The Jews of Early Modern Venice" (122) and "The Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492" (89).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A History of the Jews in Christian Spain Vicente Cantarino · Hispanic American Historical Review Aug 1967 286
2 The Jews of Early Modern Venice Donald B. Epstein · History Reviews of New Books 2002 122
3 The Jews of Spain and the Expulsion of 1492 Norman Roth · Historian Sep 1992 89
4 La dialéctica texto-imagen. A propósito de la representación del judío en las “Cantigas de Santa María” de Alfonso X Paulino Rodríguez Barral · Anuario de Estudios Medievales Open access 30 Jun 2007 72
5 El Debate del cálamo y la espada, de Jacob ben Eleazar de Toledo Amparo Alba Cecilia · Sefarad Open access 30 Dec 2008 70
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research done?

The largest centres of Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Valladolid (Spain) and Ramat Gan (Israel). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madrid.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 22 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 8 works
  3. 3 ValladolidSpain 7 works
  4. 4 Ramat GanIsrael 6 works
  5. 5 BarcelonaSpain 6 works
  6. 6 Mexico CityMexico 5 works
  7. 7 JerusalemIsrael 5 works
  8. 8 GranadaSpain 5 works
  9. 9 LisbonPortugal 4 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 4 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MadridES · 22.4 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies than the world average.

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Is Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 34% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Sephardic Jews and Inquisition Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00075% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sephardic Jews and Inquisition 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.

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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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