Subfield · Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Top Visual Arts and Performing Arts Researchers
Michel Foucault ranks first, out of 3,062 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Michel Foucault Poland · #5 worldwide 4.6k citations · 194 works
- 2 Norman K. Denzin United States · #16 worldwide 8.6k citations · 169 works
- 3 Sigmund Freud United States · #25 worldwide 2.7k citations · 174 works
- 4 Juan Ramón De La Fuente Mexico · #61 worldwide 1.5k citations · 228 works
- 5 Howard Gardner United States · #205 worldwide 3.7k citations · 123 works
- 6 Mihály Csíkszentmihályi United States · #346 worldwide 4.1k citations · 107 works
- 7 Michael Newman United Kingdom · #676 worldwide 4k citations · 97 works
- 8 Walter Benjamín France · #726 worldwide 1.3k citations · 106 works
- 9 David William Foster United Kingdom · #1,486 worldwide 474 citations · 132 works
- 10 Richard Schechner United States · #1,792 worldwide 537 citations · 114 works
- 11 Morris B. Holbrook United States · #1,889 worldwide 2.2k citations · 80 works
- 12 Walter D. Mignolo United States · #2,207 worldwide 581 citations · 97 works
- 13 Edward W. Said United States · #2,266 worldwide 528 citations · 101 works
- 14 Jacques Rancière France · #2,445 worldwide 459 citations · 91 works
- 15 Alan Collins United Kingdom · #3,393 worldwide 1.2k citations · 75 works
- 16 Georg Simmel Germany · #3,495 worldwide 691 citations · 76 works
- 17 Ian S. McLean United States · #3,775 worldwide 1.7k citations · 139 works
- 18 A. L. Kroeber United States · #3,778 worldwide 689 citations · 116 works
- 19 Cass R. Sunstein United States · #4,061 worldwide 2.5k citations · 336 works
- 20 Jean Baudrillard United States · #4,102 worldwide 477 citations · 75 works
- 21 Rudolf Arnheim United States · #4,386 worldwide 489 citations · 145 works
- 22 Marilyn Strathern United Kingdom · #4,393 worldwide 579 citations · 98 works
- 23 Elihu Katz Israel · #4,602 worldwide 756 citations · 64 works
- 24 Hermann Maurer Austria · #4,737 worldwide 963 citations · 126 works
- 25 Neil Smith United States · #5,300 worldwide 766 citations · 64 works
- 26 Dipesh Chakrabarty United States · #5,469 worldwide 746 citations · 61 works
- 27 Martin Jay United States · #5,531 worldwide 415 citations · 71 works
- 28 Eric R. Wolf United States · #6,473 worldwide 1.1k citations · 56 works
- 29 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
- 30 Linda Hutcheon Canada · #7,803 worldwide 327 citations · 74 works
- 31 Catherine Marshall France · #8,141 worldwide 533 citations · 110 works
- 32 Arto Salomaa Finland · #8,200 worldwide 1.1k citations · 101 works
- 33 Dean Keith Simonton United States · #8,738 worldwide 1.1k citations · 134 works
- 34 Christoph Bartneck New Zealand · #9,278 worldwide 863 citations · 72 works
- 35 Henry A. Giroux Canada · #9,320 worldwide 961 citations · 260 works
- 36 Bernhard Dotzler United States · #9,644 worldwide 247 citations · 172 works
- 37 Erwin Panofsky Nigeria · #9,784 worldwide 226 citations · 71 works
- 38 Elliot W. Eisner United States · #10,043 worldwide 565 citations · 116 works
- 39 Terry Eagleton United Kingdom · #10,346 worldwide 303 citations · 144 works
- 40 David Bordwell United States · #10,472 worldwide 575 citations · 50 works
- 41 Robert D. Spector United States · #10,646 worldwide 331 citations · 55 works
- 42 Cristian S. Calude New Zealand · #10,652 worldwide 1k citations · 92 works
- 43 Roland Bleiker Australia · #10,659 worldwide 278 citations · 67 works
- 44 Elisabeth Bronfen Switzerland · #10,685 worldwide 268 citations · 146 works
- 45 Edmund Husserl Netherlands · #10,731 worldwide 451 citations · 286 works
- 46 Ronald A. Beghetto United States · #10,787 worldwide 838 citations · 55 works
- 47 Bruce Barton United States · #11,064 worldwide 702 citations · 77 works
- 48 Marita Sturken United States · #11,247 worldwide 226 citations · 63 works
- 49 Alfred Neumeyer United States · #11,496 worldwide 177 citations · 80 works
- 50 Rubén Romero Brazil · #11,608 worldwide 612 citations · 72 works
- 51 Woodrow Borah United States · #11,660 worldwide 192 citations · 91 works
- 52 Çharles N. Bernstein Canada · #12,193 worldwide 1.4k citations · 207 works
- 53 bell hooks United States · #12,352 worldwide 314 citations · 73 works
- 54 Jan McDonald United Kingdom · #12,407 worldwide 511 citations · 63 works
- 55 David G. Stork United States · #12,448 worldwide 545 citations · 68 works
- 56 Siegfried Kracauer United States · #12,571 worldwide 241 citations · 57 works
- 57 Gustav Mueller United States · #12,594 worldwide 201 citations · 164 works
- 58 Noël Carroll United States · #12,766 worldwide 500 citations · 103 works
- 59 Peter Uwe Hohendahl United States · #13,286 worldwide 185 citations · 68 works
- 60 Andrew Bowie Ireland · #13,347 worldwide 400 citations · 62 works
- 61 Roberto Scopigno Italy · #13,829 worldwide 810 citations · 99 works
- 62 Elizabeth Hoffman United States · #14,006 worldwide 580 citations · 52 works
- 63 Robert Layton United Kingdom · #14,818 worldwide 348 citations · 52 works
- 64 Ellen Winner United States · #15,158 worldwide 672 citations · 63 works
- 65 John F. Schwaller United States · #15,677 worldwide 159 citations · 74 works
- 66 David Throsby Australia · #15,787 worldwide 387 citations · 89 works
- 67 Douglas Kellner United States · #17,240 worldwide 357 citations · 113 works
- 68 Martin Gardner United States · #17,580 worldwide 614 citations · 212 works
- 69 Victor Margolin United States · #17,773 worldwide 182 citations · 58 works
- 70 William O Beeman United States · #17,872 worldwide 252 citations · 62 works
- 71 David Carrier United States · #18,471 worldwide 264 citations · 116 works
- 72 Julio Cabero Almenara Spain · #18,475 worldwide 357 citations · 174 works
- 73 Marjorie Perloff United States · #18,564 worldwide 168 citations · 59 works
- 74 Charles Gibson United States · #19,259 worldwide 164 citations · 63 works
- 75 Simon Peyton Jones United Kingdom · #20,304 worldwide 927 citations · 110 works
- 76 Warwick Bray Hungary · #20,813 worldwide 209 citations · 52 works
- 77 Paul Guyer United States · #21,140 worldwide 348 citations · 136 works
- 78 Akihisa Inoue Japan · #21,354 worldwide 4.7k citations · 595 works
- 79 Theodore Ziolkowski United States · #21,398 worldwide 188 citations · 156 works
- 80 Jesús Palacios Spain · #21,469 worldwide 138 citations · 67 works
- 81 Ann Markusen United States · #21,811 worldwide 467 citations · 41 works
- 82 Stephen Bann United Kingdom · #22,109 worldwide 143 citations · 58 works
- 83 Stuart B. Schwartz United States · #22,359 worldwide 141 citations · 66 works
- 84 Virgil C. Aldrich United States · #23,009 worldwide 250 citations · 46 works
- 85 Asunción Lavrín United States · #23,108 worldwide 166 citations · 59 works
- 86 Anthony Pagden United States · #23,820 worldwide 186 citations · 51 works
- 87 Tony E. Adams United States · #23,883 worldwide 501 citations · 39 works
- 88 Arthur D. Efland United States · #23,929 worldwide 171 citations · 54 works
- 89 S. J. Tambiah United States · #24,761 worldwide 279 citations · 42 works
- 90 Paul Sharrad Australia · #24,860 worldwide 168 citations · 54 works
- 91 Linda A. Newson United Kingdom · #24,945 worldwide 180 citations · 54 works
- 92 Margaret Mead United States · #25,080 worldwide 519 citations · 178 works
- 93 Richard L. Kagan United States · #25,090 worldwide 118 citations · 71 works
- 94 Gary Shapiro United States · #25,176 worldwide 220 citations · 49 works
- 95 Arthur C. Danto United States · #25,360 worldwide 225 citations · 84 works
- 96 Ralf Bohnsack Germany · #25,381 worldwide 202 citations · 54 works
- 97 David Ganz United Kingdom · #25,561 worldwide 161 citations · 82 works
- 98 Martín Heidegger Chile · #26,942 worldwide 203 citations · 169 works
- 99 James Lockhart United States · #27,484 worldwide 218 citations · 44 works
- 100 John Russell Brown United Kingdom · #27,886 worldwide 135 citations · 60 works
authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.