Travel Writing and Literature
Travel Writing and Literature is a research topic within History. Science Explorer counts 8.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers explores the historical patterns, gender dynamics, and postcolonial perspectives in travel writing and exploration. It delves into the representation of culture, identity, and tourism, while also examining the intersection of literature and history in shaping narratives of travel and ethnography.
- Travel Writing
- Exploration
- Gender
- Postcolonialism
- Identity
- Culture
- Tourism
- Ethnography
- Literature
- History
- Research works
- 8.6k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 898 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.4% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- -3% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Travel Writing and Literature research?
By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (341 and 224 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
United States
341 works
- 2
United Kingdom
224 works
- 3
France
154 works
- 4
Germany
79 works
- 5
Russia
77 works
- 6
China
69 works
- 7
India
59 works
- 8
Canada
57 works
- 9
Brazil
56 works
- 10
Australia
56 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.
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Which institutions lead Travel Writing and Literature research?
By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Travel Writing and Literature research, followed by De Montfort University and Russian Academy of Sciences.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
32 works
- 2
De Montfort UniversityUnited Kingdom
18 works
- 3
Russian Academy of SciencesRussia
14 works
- 4
University of OxfordUnited Kingdom
14 works
- 5
University of TorontoCanada
11 works
- 6
Film IndependentUnited States
10 works
- 7
University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom
9 works
- 8
Sorbonne UniversitéFrance
9 works
- 9
Université Grenoble AlpesFrance
8 works
- 10
University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
7 works
Where is Travel Writing and Literature research done?
The largest centres of Travel Writing and Literature research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leicester.
Largest cities, 2022-now
- 1
ParisFrance
41 works
- 2
LondonUnited Kingdom
34 works
- 3
MoscowRussia
30 works
- 4
New YorkUnited States
23 works
- 5
LeicesterUnited Kingdom
21 works
- 6
TorontoCanada
17 works
- 7
Lisbon
Portugal
16 works
- 8
OxfordUnited Kingdom
16 works
- 9
Los AngelesUnited States
12 works
- 10
MelbourneAustralia
11 works
Where it is the local speciality
- LeicesterGB · 21.4 works27×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Travel Writing and Literature than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Travel Writing and Literature?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Oxford, De Montfort University and University of Cambridge 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.
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.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of OxfordUnited Kingdom |
80.1 | 26.7% | 6.5× | 14 | -0.1% |
| 2 | De Montfort UniversityUnited Kingdom |
50.0 | 0.0% | 128.2× | 18 | +631.1% |
| 3 | University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom |
34.1 | 4.4% | 4.9× | 9 | -29.9% |
| 4 | University of TorontoCanada |
30.7 | 2.3% | 3.5× | 11 | +65.0% |
| 5 | Sorbonne UniversitéFrance |
23.9 | 4.4% | 8.3× | 9 | -13.9% |
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 Travel Writing and Literature, country by countryIs Travel Writing and Literature research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.
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Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Travel Writing and Literature as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0074% in 2024.
Fractional works of Travel Writing 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.
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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