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Artistic and Creative Research

Artistic and Creative Research is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 7.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses an interdisciplinary exploration of creative research, focusing on practice-based research in arts, writing, and design. It delves into the pedagogical aspects of creative writing, the role of screenwriting as a mode of research, and the integration of art and design with academic legitimacy. The cluster also addresses the experiential knowledge derived from artistic practice and the cultural implications of creative research.

  • Creative Writing
  • Practice-Based Research
  • Artistic Practice
  • Screenwriting
  • Pedagogy
  • Poetry
  • Experiential Knowledge
  • Art and Design
  • Academic Legitimacy
  • Cultural Studies
Research works
7.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
744
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Artistic and Creative Research

Which countries lead Artistic and Creative Research research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (416 and 284 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 416 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 284 works
  3. 3 Australia 142 works
  4. 4 China 119 works
  5. 5 Canada 100 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 77 works
  7. 7 Spain 64 works
  8. 8 Germany 64 works
  9. 9 France 60 works
  10. 10 Brazil 55 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: 30.1%United Kingdom: 20.5%Australia: 10.3%China: 8.7%6 others listed: 30.4%30%largest
United States416 · 30.1%United Kingdom284 · 20.5%Australia142 · 10.3%China119 · 8.7%6 others listed420 · 30.4%

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

Which institutions lead Artistic and Creative Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Auckland University of Technology publishes the most Artistic and Creative Research research, followed by Film Independent and The University of Melbourne.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand 18 works
  2. 2 Film IndependentUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 The University of MelbourneAustralia 14 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 13 works
  5. 5 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 10 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 9 works
  7. 7 Griffith UniversityAustralia 9 works
  8. 8 RMIT UniversityAustralia 9 works
  9. 9 Deakin UniversityAustralia 8 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Artistic and Creative Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Artistic and Creative Research include Pierre Bourdıeu, ‪Damià Barceló and Norman K. Denzin.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 ‪Damià Barceló Spain 132k citations
  3. 3 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k 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 Artistic and Creative Research?

The most cited paper in Artistic and Creative Research is "Artificial intelligence in the creative industries: a review" (Nantheera Anantrasirichai, David Bull, 2021), with 735 citations. Next come "Jacks of All Trades and Masters of None: Audiences' Reactions to Spanning Genres in Feature Film Production" (629) and "Aesthetics and its Discontents" (541).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Artificial intelligence in the creative industries: a review Nantheera Anantrasirichai, David Bull · Artificial Intelligence Review Open access Jul 2021 735
2 Jacks of All Trades and Masters of None: Audiences' Reactions to Spanning Genres in Feature Film Production Greta Hsu · Administrative Science Quarterly Open access Sep 2006 629
3 Aesthetics and its Discontents Connell Vaughan · International Journal of Philosophical Studies Dec 2010 541
4 That Rare Feeling: Re-presenting Research Through Poetic Transcription Corrine Glesne · Qualitative Inquiry Jun 1997 530
5 The Composing Processes of Unskilled College Writers Sondra Perl · Research in the Teaching of English Dec 1979 507
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Where is Artistic and Creative Research research done?

The largest centres of Artistic and Creative Research research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Auckland.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 65 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 37 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 28 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 26 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 24 works
  6. 6 AucklandNew Zealand 23 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 22 works
  8. 8 Los AngelesUnited States 21 works
  9. 9 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 20 works
  10. 10 DublinIreland 17 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AucklandNZ · 22.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Artistic and Creative Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Artistic and Creative Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Auckland University of Technology, RMIT University and University of Toronto 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%10%20%mean 11.9286%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Auckland University …RMIT UniversityGriffith UniversityUniversity of Toronto
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Auckland University of TechnologyNew Zealand 86.919.4%53.6×18 +88.5%
2RMIT UniversityAustralia 61.914.9%11.9×8 -51.6%
3University of TorontoCanada 45.510.6%2.3×9 +54.6%
4Griffith UniversityAustralia 35.410.7%10.9×9 +89.4%
5The University of MelbourneAustralia 34.38.4%6.6×14 -19.2%
6Deakin UniversityAustralia 32.612.2%9.7×8 -19.3%
7University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 20.57.3%6.4×10 -11.3%

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 Artistic and Creative Research, country by country

Is Artistic and Creative Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Artistic and Creative Research.

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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 Artistic and Creative Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Artistic and Creative Research 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%Artistic and Creative Research10.6% 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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