[6] Australian historian Robert Aldrich once commented she is a "performer of inimitable ubiquity" in the academia as she "has saturated the pages of academic journals".
[7] To Alina Simone, in her academic studies "there is no dearth of material about Madonna, but an overwhelming excess".
[8] Associate professor José F. Blanco, wrote in The Journal of Popular Culture that "it can be argued that Madonna is overexposed in academic research".
In 1998, French academic Georges-Claude Guilbert wrote his thesis Madonna: un mythe postmoderne.
Music professor Antoni Pizà noted that during the late 20th century, it became a fad in the United States to write doctoral dissertations on Madonna.