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April 10, 2026

Mapping the Sociological Field: A Bibliometric Analysis of Thematic Shifts and Scholarly Patterns, 2010-2024

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DKDonghun KimTJTing JiangYZYoungjun Zhu

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Bibliometric analysis examines thematic shifts in sociology from 2010 to 2024, highlighting equity issues and changing research patterns.

Key Points

  • The study aims to analyze thematic and structural changes in sociology from 2010 to 2024 using bibliometric data.
  • Conducted a bibliometric analysis of 101,005 sociology articles from 2010 to 2024
  • Utilized transformer-based topic modeling to identify authorship and thematic patterns
  • Performed temporal analysis to assess changes in topic prominence
  • Identified University of Oxford as the leading institution in sociology publications (910 papers)
  • Found Ethnic and Racial Studies to be the most prolific journal (3,214 papers)
  • Revealed nearly balanced gender distribution among authors (50.4% female, 49.6% male)
  • Confirmed significant ethnic disparities in authorship, with 61% being White, non-Latino
  • Highlighted the dominance of social theory and financial critique as major research themes (9,016 documents)

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Kim et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d896676c1944d70ce07d79https://doi.org/10.66630/sc.2026.0001
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