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D-Index
66
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68168
World Ranking
928
National Ranking
12

Roland Barthes publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roland Barthes sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 216 publications — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Roland Barthes D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Roland Barthes sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 66 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Roland Barthes was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and contributed extensively to the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences. Over the course of their career, they focused on multiple subfields including Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory, Philosophy, General Arts and Humanities, and Political Science and International Relations.

The scholar's research explored a range of topics such as Italian Literature and Culture, Polish Historical and Cultural Studies, Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies, Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition, Semiotics and Representation Studies, diverse academic and cultural studies, and Translation Studies and Practices.

Publications appeared in various academic venues, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach. Notable frequent publication venues included:

  • Theory Culture & Society
  • Review Literature and Arts of the Americas
  • Kwartalnik Filmowy
  • Arkiv Tidskrift för samhällsanalys
  • Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature

Key recent papers by Roland Barthes were:

  • "Colouring, Degree Zero" (2020) in Theory Culture & Society
  • "The Baroque Face" (2020) in Review Literature and Arts of the Americas
  • "Wychodząc z kina" (2022) in Kwartalnik Filmowy

The scholar collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including:

  • Susan Homar
  • Geoffrey Batchen
  • Seán Cubitt
  • Grammatologie Übers
  • Rheinberger Hans-Jörg

Barthes also published books through various publishers. These included:

  • Elementi di semiologia (2020), published by Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
  • all except you (2023), published by Punctum Books
  • An den Rändern des Wissens (2023), published by Transcript Verlag

Best Publications

  • Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

    Roland Barthes

  • The Death of the Author

    Roland Barthes

  • The Pleasure of the Text

    Roland Barthes;Richard Miller;Richard Howard

  • Rhétorique de l'image

    Roland Barthes

  • Elements of Semiology

    Roland Barthes

  • Image-Music-Text

    Roland Barthes;Stephen Heath

  • Fragmentos de Un Discurso Amoroso

    Roland Barthes

  • An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative

    Roland Barthes;Lionel Duisit

  • The rustle of language

    Roland Barthes

  • Introduction à l'analyse structurale des récits

    Roland Barthes

  • A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

    Roland Barthes

  • L'effet de réel

    Roland Barthes

  • LA Chambre Claire: Note Sur LA Photographie

    Roland Barthes

  • Writing Degree Zero

    Roland Barthes

  • S/Z: An Essay

    Roland Barthes;Richard Miller

  • The grain of the voice

    Roland Barthes

  • The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation

    Roland Barthes;Richard Howard

  • Empire of Signs

    Roland Barthes;Richard Howard

  • Éléments de sémiologie

    Roland Barthes

  • The Semiotic Challenge

    Roland Barthes

  • Elementos de Semiología

    Roland Barthes

  • Le bruissement de la langue

    Roland Barthes

  • The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies

    Roland Barthes

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno Goethe University Frankfurt
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco University of Bologna
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin Temple University
Edward W. Said
Edward W. Said Columbia University
Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty Collège de France
Hans Reichenbach
Hans Reichenbach University of California, Los Angeles
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna

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