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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

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World rank, all time
#37,858
of 42,892
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,032
of 2,253
Research works
137
▲ 17% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.4k
9.9 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
11.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
25%
world 28%

What does Guildhall School of Music and Drama specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Arts and Humanities takes 15.5× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Arts and HumanitiesField · 22.1 works15×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Neuroscience: 3.03× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 0.82× its world share, 3 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.22× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringHealth Professions: 0.51× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 15.47× its world share, 22 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.21× its world share, 0 worksBusiness, Management…Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.91× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.03× its world share, 13 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 15.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Guildhall School of Music and Drama?

Ranked on the composite score, William H. Cummings lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

  1. 1 William H. Cummings United Kingdom · #589,871 worldwide 1 citations · 30 works
All ranked researchers at Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Which keywords describe research at Guildhall School of Music and Drama?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Globalization, Ethnomusicology, Performativity, Social Justice, Informal Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Music Education.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Globalization8▲ 7.9×10 topics
  2. Ethnomusicology5▲ 251×2 topics
  3. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 6.1×3 topics
  4. Performativity4▲ 276×2 topics
  5. Social Justice4▲ 13×5 topics
  6. Informal Learning4▲ 58×2 topics
  7. Literature4▲ 14×7 topics
  8. Identity4▲ 10×7 topics
  9. Music Education4▲ 234×1 topic
  10. Performance Anxiety4▲ 344×1 topic
  11. Culture4▲ 13×6 topics
  12. Theatre3▲ 228×2 topics
  13. Human-Computer Interaction3▲ 37×2 topics
  14. Drama Education3▲ 386×1 topic
  15. Performance Art3▲ 386×1 topic
  16. Gender3▲ 10×8 topics
  17. Interactive Evolutionary Computation3▲ 264×1 topic
  18. Music Generation3▲ 264×1 topic
  19. Musical Theory3▲ 334×1 topic
  20. Musicology3▲ 334×1 topic
  21. Cultural Studies2▲ 13×4 topics
  22. Qualitative Research2▲ 5.7×3 topics
  23. Colonialism2▲ 9.9×7 topics
  24. Anthropocene2▲ 80×2 topics
  25. Ecomusicology2▲ 194×1 topic
  26. Environmental Sustainability2▲ 29×1 topic
  27. Feminism2▲ 16×5 topics
  28. Emotional Responses2▲ 36×2 topics
  29. Pain Management2▲ 18×2 topics
  30. Postcolonialism2▲ 33×3 topics
  31. Reflexivity2▲ 144×2 topics
  32. Psychological Outcomes2▲ 94×2 topics
  33. Authenticity2▲ 149×2 topics
  34. Ethics2▲ 7.7×3 topics
  35. Technology2▲ 7.0×2 topics
  36. Race2▲ 30×4 topics
  37. Secularism2▲ 32×2 topics
  38. Youth2▲ 24×2 topics
  39. Democracy2▲ 9.0×4 topics
  40. Neural Mechanisms2▲ 35×2 topics

Which research topics does Guildhall School of Music and Drama publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Diverse Music Education Insights, Theatre and Performance Studies, Music Technology and Sound Studies and Musicology and Musical Analysis.

Diverse Music Education Insights: 4 fractional worksTheatre and Performance Studies: 3 fractional worksMusic Technology and Sou…3Music Technology and Sound Studies: 3 fractional worksMusicology and Musical A…3Musicology and Musical Analysis: 3 fractional worksDiverse Musicological Studies: 2 fractional worksNeuroscience and Music Perception: 2 fractional worksMusic History and Culture2Music History and Culture: 2 fractional worksMusic Therapy and Health: 1 fractional worksEcocriticism and Environmental Literature: 1 fractional worksReligious Tourism and Spaces: 1 fractional works
MusicVisual Arts and Performing ArtsComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionCognitive Neuroscience3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Diverse Music Education Insights Music 4 works
  2. 2 Theatre and Performance Studies Visual Arts and Performing Arts 3 works
  3. 3 Music Technology and Sound Studies Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3 works
  4. 4 Musicology and Musical Analysis Music 3 works
  5. 5 Diverse Musicological Studies Music 2 works
  6. 6 Neuroscience and Music Perception Cognitive Neuroscience 2 works
  7. 7 Music History and Culture Music 2 works
  8. 8 Music Therapy and Health Social Psychology 1 works
  9. 9 Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature Literature and Literary Theory 1 works
  10. 10 Religious Tourism and Spaces Geography, Planning and Development 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available25.2%not open74.8%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors7.0%domestic only93.0%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Guildhall School of Music and Drama's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 17% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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