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Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

Violence, Religion, and Philosophy is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 2.9k research works in it since 1954. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the concept of Mimetic Theory and its implications for understanding violence, religion, sacrifice, literature, anthropology, philosophy, cultural studies, psychology, and human evolution. It delves into the works of René Girard and other scholars who have applied and extended his theories in various academic disciplines.

  • Mimetic Theory
  • Violence
  • Religion
  • Sacrifice
  • Literature
  • Anthropology
  • Philosophy
  • Cultural Studies
  • Psychology
  • Evolution
Research works
2.9k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
296
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
35% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Violence, Religion, and Philosophy

Which countries lead Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research?

By volume, the United States and Poland publish the most (132 and 40 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 132 works
  2. 2 Poland 40 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 40 works
  4. 4 France 36 works
  5. 5 Italy 27 works
  6. 6 Germany 26 works
  7. 7 Spain 23 works
  8. 8 Canada 19 works
  9. 9 Russia 18 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 17 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: 35.1%Poland: 10.7%United Kingdom: 10.6%France: 9.4%6 others listed: 34.2%35%largest
United States132 · 35.1%Poland40 · 10.7%United Kingdom40 · 10.6%France36 · 9.4%6 others listed129 · 34.2%

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

Which institutions lead Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 11 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 5 works
  3. 3 University of WarsawPoland 4 works
  4. 4 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 4 works
  5. 5 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 3 works
  6. 6 University of SzczecinPoland 3 works
  7. 7 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 3 works
  8. 8 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 3 works
  9. 9 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 3 works
  10. 10 Film IndependentUnited States 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Violence, Religion, and Philosophy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Violence, Religion, and Philosophy include Bruno Latour, James Wetzel and Sigmund Freud.

  1. 1 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  2. 2 James Wetzel France 98k citations
  3. 3 Sigmund Freud Brazil 97k citations
  4. 4 David Blair Allison United States 88k 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 Violence, Religion, and Philosophy?

The most cited paper in Violence, Religion, and Philosophy is "Violence and the Word" (Robert M. Cover, 1986), with 704 citations. Next come "Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology" (682) and "From public sphere to public screen: democracy, activism, and the "violence" of Seattle" (418).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Violence and the Word Robert M. Cover · The Yale Law Journal Jul 1986 704
2 Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology Andrew J. Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart · American Anthropologist Dec 2005 682
3 From public sphere to public screen: democracy, activism, and the "violence" of Seattle Kevin Michael DeLuca, Jennifer Peeples · Critical Studies in Media Communication Jun 2002 418
4 Death and Furniture: the rhetoric, politics and theology of bottom line arguments against relativism Derek Edwards, Malcolm Ashmore, Jonathan Potter · History of the Human Sciences May 1995 382
5 Failed empathy--a central theme in the survivor's holocaust experience. Dori Laub, Nanette C. Auerhahn · Psychoanalytic Psychology 1989 215
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Where is Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research done?

The largest centres of Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Warsaw (Poland) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 15 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 10 works
  3. 3 WarsawPoland 8 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 8 works
  5. 5 KrakowPoland 7 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 7 works
  7. 7 RomeItaly 7 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 5 works
  10. 10 LublinPoland 4 works
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Is Violence, Religion, and Philosophy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% 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 Violence, Religion, and Philosophy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Violence, Religion, and Philosophy 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.

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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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