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Social Representations and Identity

Social Representations and Identity is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 explores the concept of the dialogical self, focusing on personal and cultural positioning, social representations theory, inner speech, identity construction, and qualitative inquiry. It delves into the dynamics of mind, semiotic mediation, narrative analysis, and the influence of globalization on psychological methodology.

  • Dialogical Self
  • Social Representations Theory
  • Inner Speech
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Identity Construction
  • Qualitative Inquiry
  • Semiotic Mediation
  • Narrative Analysis
  • Globalization
  • Psychological Methodology
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Representations and Identity

Which countries lead Social Representations and Identity research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (480 and 237 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 480 works
  2. 2 United States 237 works
  3. 3 France 192 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 125 works
  5. 5 Germany 113 works
  6. 6 Italy 77 works
  7. 7 Canada 62 works
  8. 8 Spain 54 works
  9. 9 China 53 works
  10. 10 Switzerland 51 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.

Brazil: 33.3%United States: 16.5%France: 13.3%United Kingdom: 8.6%6 others listed: 28.4%33%largest
Brazil480 · 33.3%United States237 · 16.5%France192 · 13.3%United Kingdom125 · 8.6%6 others listed409 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Social Representations and Identity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Social Representations and Identity research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universidade de Brasília.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 36 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 36 works
  3. 3 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 24 works
  4. 4 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 18 works
  5. 5 Université de LyonFrance 18 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 16 works
  7. 7 Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität WienAustria 16 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 15 works
  9. 9 University of BernSwitzerland 15 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Representations and Identity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Representations and Identity include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  5. 5 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  6. 6 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  7. 7 Roy Frederick Baumeister United States 183k citations
  8. 8 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  9. 9 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k citations
  10. 10 Jacob Cohen Israel 170k 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 Representations and Identity?

The most cited paper in Social Representations and Identity is "Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.)." (Peter A. Lachenbruch, Jacob Cohen, 1989), with 37,611 citations. Next come "The need for cognition." (5,192) and "On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications." (4,074).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). Peter A. Lachenbruch, Jacob Cohen · Journal of the American Statistical Association Dec 1989 37,611
2 The need for cognition. John T. Cacioppo, Richard E. Petty · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1982 5,192
3 On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics and their implications. Martin T. Orne · American Psychologist Nov 1962 4,074
4 Toward a universal psychological structure of human values. Shalom H. Schwartz, Wolfgang Bilsky · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Sep 1987 3,598
5 Who is this "We"? Levels of collective identity and self representations. Marilynn B. Brewer, Wendi L. Gardner · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Jul 1996 3,421
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Social Representations and Identity research done?

The largest centres of Social Representations and Identity research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Paris (France), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Salvador and Brasília.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 87 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 52 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 45 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 33 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 32 works
  6. 6 SalvadorBrazil 27 works
  7. 7 ViennaAustria 23 works
  8. 8 Porto AlegreBrazil 21 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  10. 10 Buenos AiresArgentina 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SalvadorBR · 26.6 works19×
  2. BrasíliaBR · 32.6 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social Representations and Identity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Social Representations and Identity?

Among universities, judged by research, Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität Wien, University of Copenhagen and Universidade de São Paulo 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%20%40%mean 11.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Copenh…Sigmund Freud Privat…University of BernUniversidade de São …
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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
1Sigmund Freud Privatuniversität WienAustria 64.521.6%310.2×16 +507.3%
2University of CopenhagenDenmark 59.146.1%4.8×8 +85.2%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 49.42.2%9.9×36 -6.0%
4University of BernSwitzerland 47.52.4%14.9×15 +1154.8%
5Aalborg UniversityDenmark 44.54.6%17.9×18 -40.4%
6Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 43.27.7%23.6×24 -11.7%
7Université de LyonFrance 37.32.8%15.1×18 -8.2%
8Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 34.94.2%12.7×15 +8.0%
9Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 33.717.9%13.6×8 -22.2%
10Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 33.59.2%12.9×10 +76.3%

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 Representations and Identity, country by country

Is Social Representations and Identity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% 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 Representations and Identity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0078% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Social Representations and Identity 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 Representations and Identity10.6% 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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