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Art Education and Development

Art Education and Development is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of arts education, visual culture, and academic achievement. It delves into topics such as the impact of arts study on academic performance, the role of creativity in education, and the integration of arts into the curriculum to promote cultural understanding and critical thinking.

  • Arts Education
  • Visual Culture
  • Academic Achievement
  • Creative Thinking
  • Cultural Narratives
  • Aesthetic Education
  • Social Justice
  • Curriculum Integration
  • Art Integration
  • Multicultural Art Education
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Art Education and Development

Which countries lead Art Education and Development research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (726 and 205 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 726 works
  2. 2 China 205 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 191 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 153 works
  5. 5 Canada 119 works
  6. 6 Spain 110 works
  7. 7 Australia 106 works
  8. 8 India 99 works
  9. 9 Indonesia 89 works
  10. 10 Brazil 87 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.

United States: 38.5%China: 10.9%United Kingdom: 10.1%Türkiye: 8.1%6 others listed: 32.3%39%largest
United States726 · 38.5%China205 · 10.9%United Kingdom191 · 10.1%Türkiye153 · 8.1%6 others listed610 · 32.3%

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

Which institutions lead Art Education and Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Georgia State University publishes the most Art Education and Development research, followed by University of Baghdad and Universiti Teknologi MARA.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 17 works
  2. 2 University of BaghdadIraq 13 works
  3. 3 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 12 works
  4. 4 University of British ColumbiaCanada 12 works
  5. 5 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  6. 6 Columbia UniversityUnited States 12 works
  7. 7 Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 12 works
  8. 8 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 11 works
  9. 9 Indiana UniversityUnited States 11 works
  10. 10 Film IndependentUnited States 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Art Education and Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Art Education and Development include Norman K. Denzin and Paul DiMaggio.

  1. 1 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  2. 2 Paul DiMaggio United States 120k 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 Education and Development?

The most cited paper in Art Education and Development is "A Meta-Analysis of Personality in Scientific and Artistic Creativity" (Gregory J. Feist, 1998), with 2,190 citations. Next come "Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire" (1,041) and "Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art" (1,037).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Meta-Analysis of Personality in Scientific and Artistic Creativity Gregory J. Feist · Personality and Social Psychology Review Review Nov 1998 2,190
2 Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Creative Achievement Questionnaire Shelley Carson, Jordan B. Peterson, Daniel M. Higgins · Creativity Research Journal Feb 2005 1,041
3 Psychoanalytic Explorations in Art Jacques Schnier, Ernst Kris · College Art Journal 1953 1,037
4 Framing the Social World With Photo-Elicitation Interviews Marisol Clark‐Ibáñez · American Behavioral Scientist 17 Jun 2004 890
5 Young children's knowledge about visual perception: Further evidence for the Level 1–Level 2 distinction. John H. Flavell, Barbara A. Everett, Karen Croft et al. · Developmental Psychology 1981 812
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Where is Art Education and Development research done?

The largest centres of Art Education and Development research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Ankara (Türkiye) and Istanbul (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 51 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 31 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 23 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 23 works
  6. 6 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 23 works
  7. 7 MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  8. 8 Los AngelesUnited States 22 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 22 works
  10. 10 AtlantaUnited States 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Art Education and Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Georgia State University, Universitat de València and Western Norway University of Applied Sciences 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%20%40%mean 13.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat de Valèn…Western Norway Unive…Gazi UniversityGeorgia State Univer…
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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
1Georgia State UniversityUnited States 76.114.1%22.0×17 +1204.2%
2Universitat de ValènciaSpain 72.629.0%7.2×11 +140.9%
3Western Norway University of Applied SciencesNorway 54.918.9%47.1×8 +39.2%
4Gazi UniversityTürkiye 54.517.2%9.1×11 +49.8%
5University of Southern QueenslandAustralia 53.410.9%26.8×10 +385.9%
6Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 51.816.5%4.1×12 -7.9%
7Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 50.76.8%21.4×12 +215.3%
8Columbia UniversityUnited States 46.02.4%4.0×12 +46.3%
9Indiana UniversityUnited States 45.311.3%4.3×11 +14.7%
10Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 44.96.9%6.1×12 +97.0%

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 Education and Development, country by country

Is Art Education and Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Art Education and Development.

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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 Education and Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Art Education and Development 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 Education and Development10.3% 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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