Arts and Humanities papers

Pofolia organises Arts and Humanities into 13 subfields: 1123 papers in total (1994–2026), each with a short summary. The subfields come first, then the most-cited work across the whole field.

Subfields

• Archeology (Arts and Humanities) 63 papers
• History and Philosophy of Science 83 papers
• Language and Linguistics 111 papers
• Religious studies 95 papers
• Literature and Literary Theory 107 papers
• Philosophy 104 papers
• General Arts and Humanities 54 papers
• Visual Arts and Performing Arts 96 papers
• Classics 95 papers
• Conservation 69 papers
• Museology 79 papers
• Music 80 papers
• History 87 papers

At a glance

• Most cited: The Location of Culture (2012, 14,225 citations).
• The 12 papers listed have 87,681 citations between them.
• 2 of the 2 with a known journal quartile appeared in a Q1 journal.
• Most frequent journals: Anthem Press eBooks, DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library), Gender Place & Culture.
• Published between 1994 and 2026.

Most cited across the field

Ranked by citation count. Because citations accumulate over time, this list naturally leans towards work published a few years ago; for where the field is now, see “recently added”. How to read the signals

• The Location of Culture

  2012 · FWCI 941.92 · 14,225 citations

  This abstract outlines a book or collection of essays exploring the complex relationship between culture, identity, and colonialism, particularly through the lens of postcolonial theory.

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• Childhood and Society

  Open MIND · 2026 · FWCI 288.94 · 11,297 citations

  Erik Erikson's "Childhood and Society" introduced a groundbreaking theory of psychosocial development, positing that identity is shaped by eight distinct stages of psychosocial crises throughout life.

• Descarte's error : emotion, reason, and the human brain

  DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) · 1994 · 9,503 citations

  Neurological evidence shows rational decision-making requires emotion and feeling, not just logic.

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• One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?

  Qualitative Research in Psychology · 2020 · Q1 · SJR 1.00 · FWCI 2376.04 · 8,571 citations

  Developing a universal quality standard for thematic analysis (TA) is complicated by its many different versions, yet editors and reviewers often wrongly demand 'coding reliability measures' as a universal requirement.

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• The Minimalist Program

  The MIT Press eBooks · 2014 · FWCI 300.28 · 8,130 citations

  Noam Chomsky's 1995 book, "The Minimalist Program," presents a foundational framework for linguistic theory within the cognitive sciences, proposing a new research program based on Universal Grammar as an optimal computational system.

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• The Logic of Scientific Discovery

  2013 · FWCI 4033.50 · 7,809 citations

  Karl Popper's "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" introduced the influential doctrine of falsificationism, fundamentally altering how science and knowledge are understood.

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• Playing and Reality

  2012 · FWCI 285.79 · 5,634 citations

  This work explores the origins of imaginative living and cultural experience, focusing on what enables individuals to live creatively and find life meaningful.

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• Principles of Pragmatics

  2016 · FWCI 312.38 · 4,990 citations

  This work presents pragmatics as the study of how utterances derive meaning within specific contexts and conditions.

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• Tractatus logico-philosophicus

  Anthem Press eBooks · 2021 · FWCI 479.78 · 4,902 citations

  This abstract describes the historical significance and publication of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," the only philosophical work he published during his lifetime, first appearing in 1921.

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• Phenomenology of Perception

  2013 · FWCI 233.37 · 4,750 citations

  This is a new translation of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's seminal 1945 work, "Phénoménologie de la perception," making a landmark of 20th-century thought accessible to a new generation.

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• Staying with the trouble: making kin in the Chthulucene

  Gender Place & Culture · 2017 · Q1 · 3,988 citations

  This paper argues for a radical rethinking of human relationships with the non-human world, proposing new ways of "making kin" to foster multispecies survival in the face of ecological crisis.

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• Sociocultural Theory and Second Language Learning

  2013 · FWCI 1569.89 · 3,882 citations

  Sociocultural Theory (SCT), originating from Vygotsky, posits that human mental functioning is a culturally mediated process, with language being the primary tool. Development occurs through participation in social and institutional contexts.

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Journals in this field

The journals that publish most of this field’s papers. Quartile (Q1–Q4), SJR and h-index are from SCImago Journal Rank; “in this field” is how many of the journal’s pooled papers belong here. What is a Q1 journal? · What is the h-index?

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