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Art, Aesthetics, and Perception

Art, Aesthetics, and Perception is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 5.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of visual culture, society, and modernity, encompassing topics such as photography, art, aesthetics, media, cultural theory, identity, representation, and philosophy. It delves into the complexities of visual expression and its impact on societal constructs and individual identities.

  • Visual Culture
  • Society
  • Photography
  • Art
  • Aesthetics
  • Media
  • Cultural Theory
  • Identity
  • Representation
  • Philosophy
Research works
5.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
537
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
68% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Art, Aesthetics, and Perception

Which countries lead Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (859 and 96 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 859 works
  2. 2 Austria 96 works
  3. 3 United States 82 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 81 works
  5. 5 Poland 44 works
  6. 6 France 40 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 19 works
  8. 8 Italy 17 works
  9. 9 China 12 works
  10. 10 Brazil 10 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Germany: 68.2%Austria: 7.6%United States: 6.5%Switzerland: 6.4%6 others listed: 11.3%68%largest
Germany859 · 68.2%Austria96 · 7.6%United States82 · 6.5%Switzerland81 · 6.4%6 others listed142 · 11.3%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research?

By volume in 2022-now, Freie Universität Berlin publishes the most Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research, followed by Ruhr University Bochum and University of Cologne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 26 works
  2. 2 Ruhr University BochumGermany 23 works
  3. 3 University of CologneGermany 23 works
  4. 4 Leibniz AssociationGermany 20 works
  5. 5 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 19 works
  6. 6 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 19 works
  7. 7 University of PotsdamGermany 17 works
  8. 8 University of MünsterGermany 16 works
  9. 9 Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 15 works
  10. 10 University of ViennaAustria 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Art, Aesthetics, and Perception?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Art, Aesthetics, and Perception include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michel Foucault and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Art, Aesthetics, and Perception?

The most cited paper in Art, Aesthetics, and Perception is "Behavior and development as a function of the total situation." (Kurt Lewin, 2005), with 509 citations. Next come "Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization of Experience" (410) and "Psychological deficit in schizophrenia" (343).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Behavior and development as a function of the total situation. Kurt Lewin Book chapter 14 Jun 2005 509
2 Frame Analysis. An Essay on the Organization of Experience Jürgen Raab · J.B. Metzler eBooks Book chapter 2022 410
3 Psychological deficit in schizophrenia David J. Shakow · Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17 Jan 2007 343
4 Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 17 Floris Roelofsen, Noortje J. Venhuizen, Galit W. Sassoon 2013 317
5 Beyond empathy: Phenomenological approaches to intersubjectivity Dan Zahavi · Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) Book chapter 2001 309
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research done?

The largest centres of Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Munich (Germany), Vienna (Austria) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bielefeld.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 85 works
  2. 2 MunichGermany 48 works
  3. 3 ViennaAustria 47 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 41 works
  5. 5 ZurichSwitzerland 35 works
  6. 6 HamburgGermany 32 works
  7. 7 Frankfurt am MainGermany 25 works
  8. 8 BochumGermany 24 works
  9. 9 DüsseldorfGermany 23 works
  10. 10 BielefeldGermany 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BielefeldDE · 22.2 works57×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Art, Aesthetics, and Perception than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Art, Aesthetics, and Perception?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Vienna, Freie Universität Berlin and Goethe University Frankfurt score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%5%10%15%mean 10.05%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ViennaGoethe University Fr…University of TübingenFreie Universität Be…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of ViennaAustria 72.813.1%23.8×14 +122.0%
2Freie Universität BerlinGermany 72.27.4%52.9×26 +69.7%
3Goethe University FrankfurtGermany 68.711.7%28.3×15 +26.1%
4University of TübingenGermany 67.311.4%24.9×13 +41.5%
5Ruhr University BochumGermany 66.612.5%47.5×23 -11.7%
6Johannes Gutenberg University MainzGermany 62.612.1%24.5×11 +104.4%
7Bielefeld UniversityGermany 60.17.1%69.8×19 +34.3%
8University of CologneGermany 58.77.8%45.1×23 -15.7%
9Philipps University of MarburgGermany 52.77.8%39.5×13 +72.9%
10University of PotsdamGermany 52.49.6%58.3×16 +100.0%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Art, Aesthetics, and Perception, country by country

Is Art, Aesthetics, and Perception research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Art, Aesthetics, and Perception.

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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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Art, Aesthetics, and Perception as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0060% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Art, Aesthetics, and Perception over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Art, Aesthetics, and Perception9.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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