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Spatial and Cultural Studies

Spatial and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Geography, Planning and Development. Science Explorer counts 2.8k research works in it since 1952. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of heterotopia, the spatial turn, and the geographies of different spaces. It delves into the impact of globalization on space, identity, and power dynamics, particularly in urban and postcolonial contexts. The literature, cultural geography, and urbanism are central themes in understanding the complexities of heterotopic spaces.

  • Heterotopia
  • Spatial Turn
  • Globalization
  • Space
  • Identity
  • Literature
  • Urbanism
  • Cultural Geography
  • Postcolonialism
  • Power
Research works
2.8k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
292
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Spatial and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Spatial and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (170 and 107 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 170 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 107 works
  3. 3 China 48 works
  4. 4 Germany 43 works
  5. 5 Poland 41 works
  6. 6 India 38 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 35 works
  8. 8 Canada 34 works
  9. 9 Italy 33 works
  10. 10 France 32 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: 29.2%United Kingdom: 18.5%China: 8.2%Germany: 7.4%6 others listed: 36.7%29%largest
United States170 · 29.2%United Kingdom107 · 18.5%China48 · 8.2%Germany43 · 7.4%6 others listed213 · 36.7%

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

Which institutions lead Spatial and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Jagiellonian University publishes the most Spatial and Cultural Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 8 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works
  3. 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 8 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 5 works
  5. 5 RMIT UniversityAustralia 5 works
  6. 6 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 5 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 4 works
  8. 8 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 4 works
  9. 9 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 4 works
  10. 10 Film IndependentUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Spatial and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Spatial and Cultural Studies include Michel Foucault, Anselm L. Strauss and C. Michael Hall.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  3. 3 C. Michael Hall New Zealand 65k 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 Spatial and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Spatial and Cultural Studies is "The New Mobilities Paradigm" (Mimí Sheller, John Urry, 2006), with 5,546 citations. Next come "Towards a Politics of Mobility" (2,106) and "Cultural geography: the busyness of being `more-than-representational'" (1,232).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The New Mobilities Paradigm Mimí Sheller, John Urry · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space Feb 2006 5,546
2 Towards a Politics of Mobility Tim Cresswell · Environment and Planning D Society and Space 2010 2,106
3 Cultural geography: the busyness of being `more-than-representational' Hayden Lorimer · Progress in Human Geography Feb 2005 1,232
4 Engaging the global countryside: globalization, hybridity and the reconstitution of rural place Michael Woods · Progress in Human Geography Aug 2007 826
5 If Mobility is Everything Then it is Nothing: Towards a Relational Politics of (Im)mobilities Peter Adey · Mobilities 14 Feb 2006 740
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Spatial and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Spatial and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye), Krakow (Poland) and Melbourne (Australia). 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 21 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 11 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 9 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 9 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 9 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 8 works
  7. 7 PoznańPoland 8 works
  8. 8 ManchesterUnited Kingdom 8 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 7 works
  10. 10 TorontoCanada 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 21.3 works2.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Spatial and Cultural Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Spatial and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Jagiellonian 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
1Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 10.09.0%15.1×8 +246.2%

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 Spatial and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Spatial and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Spatial and Cultural Studies.

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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 Spatial and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0027% in 2024.

still counting0.0020%0.0040%0.0060%Spatial and Cultural Studies0.0054% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Spatial 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%Spatial and Cultural Studies10.8% 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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