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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. 16.6% 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%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
16.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+21%
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Which countries lead Travel Writing and Literature research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (307 and 203 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 307 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 203 works
  3. 3 France 150 works
  4. 4 Germany 75 works
  5. 5 Russia 69 works
  6. 6 China 53 works
  7. 7 Canada 53 works
  8. 8 Brazil 50 works
  9. 9 Australia 48 works
  10. 10 India 45 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: 29.1%United Kingdom: 19.3%France: 14.2%Germany: 7.1%6 others listed: 30.2%29%largest
United States307 · 29.1%United Kingdom203 · 19.3%France150 · 14.2%Germany75 · 7.1%6 others listed319 · 30.2%

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

Which institutions lead Travel Writing and Literature research?

By volume in 2022–2025, De Montfort University publishes the most Travel Writing and Literature research, followed by University of Oxford and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 De Montfort UniversityUnited Kingdom 18 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 12 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 11 works
  4. 4 Film IndependentUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 9 works
  6. 6 University of WarwickUnited Kingdom 7 works
  7. 7 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 6 works
  8. 8 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 6 works
  9. 9 Durham UniversityUnited Kingdom 6 works
  10. 10 Les Afriques dans le MondeFrance 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Travel Writing and Literature?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Travel Writing and Literature include Charles Darwin.

  1. 1 Charles Darwin Indonesia 1.3k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Travel Writing and Literature research done?

The largest centres of Travel Writing and Literature research in 2022–2025 are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Moscow (Russia) and Leicester (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Leicester.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Paris France 41 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 30 works
  3. 3 Moscow Russia 27 works
  4. 4 Leicester United Kingdom 21 works
  5. 5 New York United States 20 works
  6. 6 Toronto Canada 17 works
  7. 7 Oxford United Kingdom 14 works
  8. 8 Lisbon Portugal 14 works
  9. 9 Los Angeles United States 11 works
  10. 10 Cambridge United Kingdom 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LeicesterGB · 21.4 works30×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Travel Writing and Literature?

Among universities, judged by research, De Montfort University, University of Oxford and University of Toronto 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%10%20%mean 11.325%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →De Montfort University: 18, 19.1%University of Oxford: 12, 19.2%University of Toronto: 11, 3.1%University of Cambridge: 9, 3.9%University of OxfordDe Montfort UniversityUniversity of Cambri…University of Toronto
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 De Montfort UniversityUnited Kingdom 94.919.1%125.5×18 +187.5%
2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 54.119.2%6.3×12 +40.5%
3 University of TorontoCanada 14.63.1%5.0×11 +19.4%
4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 12.33.9%5.2×9 +21.8%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Travel Writing and Literature research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 21% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2019. The fastest-growing topics are Travel Writing and Literature.

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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.

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.