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Social and Cultural Studies

Social and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 2.1k research works in it since 1954. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of globalization, societal change, and cultural diversity on modern identity and self-identity. It delves into topics such as the individualized society, reconciliation in divided societies, citizenship education, and the influence of digital culture on identity construction. The papers also discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by ethnic diversity, social theory, and the evolving concept of citizenship in a globalized world.

  • Modernity
  • Self-Identity
  • Globalization
  • Societal Change
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Ethnicity
  • Social Theory
  • Citizenship
  • Education
  • Digital Culture
Research works
2.1k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
216
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Social and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (73 and 36 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 73 works
  2. 2 Brazil 36 works
  3. 3 Russia 31 works
  4. 4 China 25 works
  5. 5 Poland 22 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 20 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 16 works
  8. 8 Japan 15 works
  9. 9 Romania 13 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 12 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: 27.8%Brazil: 13.6%Russia: 11.6%China: 9.5%6 others listed: 37.5%28%largest
United States73 · 27.8%Brazil36 · 13.6%Russia31 · 11.6%China25 · 9.5%6 others listed99 · 37.5%

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

Which institutions lead Social and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Woodbury University publishes the most Social and Cultural Studies research, followed by Weatherford College and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 14 works
  2. 2 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 10 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 8 works
  4. 4 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 7 works
  5. 5 National University of LaosLaos 6 works
  6. 6 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 4 works
  7. 7 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 3 works
  8. 8 Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael 3 works
  9. 9 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 3 works
  10. 10 Universitatea de Medicină, Farmacie, Științe și Tehnologie „George Emil Palade” din Târgu MureșRomania 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social and Cultural Studies include John C. Turner.

  1. 1 John C. Turner United Kingdom 78k 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 Social and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Social and Cultural Studies is "The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World" (John Borneman, 2005), with 2,173 citations. Next come "The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history." (1,971) and "Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions." (1,248).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World John Borneman · American Anthropologist 20 Aug 2005 2,173
2 The totalitarian ego: Fabrication and revision of personal history. Anthony G. Greenwald · American Psychologist Jul 1980 1,971
3 Nostalgia: Content, triggers, functions. Tim Wildschut, Constantine Sedikides, Jamie Arndt et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Open access 24 Oct 2006 1,248
4 Prejudice: Its Social Psychology Catherine Campbell, Rupert James Brown · British Journal of Sociology Jun 1997 790
5 What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited Tony Harcup, Deirdre O’Neill · Journalism Studies Open access May 2001 603
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Where is Social and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Social and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Burbank (United States), Kyiv (Ukraine), New York (United States) and Weatherford (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BurbankUnited States 14 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 11 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 10 works
  4. 4 WeatherfordUnited States 10 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 8 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 7 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 6 works
  8. 8 VientianeLaos 6 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 6 works
  10. 10 BucharestRomania 5 works
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Where is the best place to study Social and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College and Woodbury University 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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 60.09.1%20.4×10 +240.0%
2Woodbury UniversityUnited States 35.08.6%6855.3×14 -

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 Social and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Social and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Social and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0018% in 2024.

still counting0.0010%0.0020%0.0030%Social and Cultural Studies0.0016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Social and Cultural 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%Social and Cultural Studies11.4% in 202520102020

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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