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Spanish Philosophy and Literature

Spanish Philosophy and Literature is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 3.3k 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 explores philosophical and aesthetic perspectives on art, encompassing the works of Ortega y Gasset, María Zambrano, Kierkegaard, and other thinkers. It delves into topics such as aesthetics, literature, cultural critique, modernism, ethics, and identity.

  • Ortega y Gasset
  • María Zambrano
  • Kierkegaard
  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy
  • Literature
  • Cultural Critique
  • Modernism
  • Ethics
  • Identity
Research works
3.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
334
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spanish Philosophy and Literature

Which countries lead Spanish Philosophy and Literature research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (240 and 63 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 240 works
  2. 2 Mexico 63 works
  3. 3 Argentina 58 works
  4. 4 Chile 34 works
  5. 5 United States 34 works
  6. 6 Italy 26 works
  7. 7 Colombia 24 works
  8. 8 France 16 works
  9. 9 Brazil 16 works
  10. 10 Peru 11 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: 46.1%Mexico: 12.0%Argentina: 11.0%Chile: 6.6%6 others listed: 24.2%46%largest
Spain240 · 46.1%Mexico63 · 12.0%Argentina58 · 11.0%Chile34 · 6.6%6 others listed126 · 24.2%

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

Which institutions lead Spanish Philosophy and Literature research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Spanish Philosophy and Literature research, followed by Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia and Universidad de Buenos Aires.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 35 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 18 works
  3. 3 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 15 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 15 works
  5. 5 Universidad de SevillaSpain 15 works
  6. 6 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 14 works
  7. 7 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 13 works
  8. 8 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 11 works
  9. 9 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 10 works
  10. 10 University of ChileChile 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spanish Philosophy and Literature?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spanish Philosophy and Literature include Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Spanish Philosophy and Literature?

The most cited paper in Spanish Philosophy and Literature is "Peronismo y cultura de izquierda" (Silvana Staltari, 2012), with 151 citations. Next come "Sociedades adultocéntricas: sobre sus orígenes y reproducción" (104) and "Anatomía del testimonio" (73).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Peronismo y cultura de izquierda Silvana Staltari · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) Open access Dec 2012 151
2 Sociedades adultocéntricas: sobre sus orígenes y reproducción Claudio Duarte Quapper · Última Década Open access Jul 2012 104
3 Anatomía del testimonio John R. Beverley · Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana 1987 73
4 Motional Casimir force M T Jaekel, Serge Reynaud · Journal de Physique I Open access Feb 1992 65
5 Las muertes de Rubén Darío en la poesía española Ignacio López–Calvo 1996 61
All 105 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Spanish Philosophy and Literature research done?

The largest centres of Spanish Philosophy and Literature research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Mexico City (Mexico) and Santiago (Chile). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Madrid, Buenos Aires and Santiago.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 96 works
  2. 2 Buenos AiresArgentina 31 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 30 works
  4. 4 SantiagoChile 23 works
  5. 5 SevilleSpain 16 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 15 works
  7. 7 SalamancaSpain 13 works
  8. 8 BogotáColombia 12 works
  9. 9 ValenciaSpain 10 works
  10. 10 LimaPeru 8 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MadridES · 95.6 works33×
  2. Buenos AiresAR · 31.4 works29×
  3. SantiagoCL · 23.4 works24×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Spanish Philosophy and Literature than the world average.

See Spanish Philosophy and Literature on the map

Where is the best place to study Spanish Philosophy and Literature?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad de Buenos Aires 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%5%10%15%mean 10.9444%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de SevillaUniversidad Autónoma…Universidad de Bueno…Universidad Complute…
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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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 63.010.4%77.1×35 +37.0%
2Universidad de SevillaSpain 61.114.1%49.9×15 +2.6%
3Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 55.112.2%73.6×15 +59.7%
4Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 47.613.0%36.6×11 -34.3%
5Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 43.210.4%24.8×10 -7.4%
6Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 36.711.6%190.9×18 -21.6%
7Universidad de SalamancaSpain 32.49.7%70.4×13 -22.7%
8University of ChileChile 28.79.5%45.8×8 +22.4%
9Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 22.77.6%27.1×14 +46.8%

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 Spanish Philosophy and Literature, country by country

Is Spanish Philosophy and Literature research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Spanish Philosophy and Literature as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0027% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Spanish Philosophy and Literature0.0026% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spanish Philosophy and Literature 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%Spanish Philosophy and Literature9.5% 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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