World Literature Today

8.6k papers and 48.1k indexed citations i.

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The 8.6k papers published in World Literature Today in the last decades have received a total of 48.1k indexed citations. Papers published in World Literature Today usually cover Literature and Literary Theory (1.4k papers), Sociology and Political Science (1.0k papers) and Political Science and International Relations (529 papers) specifically the topics of Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (245 papers), Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism (175 papers) and German Literature and Culture Studies (164 papers). The most active scholars publishing in World Literature Today are Michael Holquist, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Ewa M. Thompson, M. M. Bakhtin, Caryl Emerson, David S. Gross, Roland A. Champagne, Brinda Bose, Edward W. Said and Jidlaph G. Kamoche.

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Fields of papers published in World Literature Today

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries where authors publish in World Literature Today

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in World Literature Today. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in World Literature Today with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites World Literature Today more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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