Cultural Studies

465.5k papers and 2.5M indexed citations

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465.5k papers covering Cultural Studies have received a total of 2.5M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Japanese History and Culture, Cultural and Artistic Studies and Asian Culture and Media Studies and also cover the fields of Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and Education. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Sociology and Political Science, Education and Social Psychology. Some of the most active scholars covering Cultural Studies are Jeffrey L. Elman, Noam Chomsky, Michael Tomasello, Karen Barad, John Law, Joseph Henrich, Michel Callon, Katharine A. Phillips, M. M. Bakhtin and W. Tecumseh Fitch.

In The Last Decade

Cultural Studies

45.0k papers receiving 141.9k citations

Countries where authors publish papers about Cultural Studies

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Fields of papers citing papers about Cultural Studies

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