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Arts, Culture, and Music Studies

Arts, Culture, and Music Studies is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 3.8k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of cultural policy, innovation in education, and the impact of theater, science, and gender on society. It also delves into sustainability, tourism, and the challenges posed by globalization. The papers cover a wide range of topics including audience development, interdisciplinary research, and the role of art in addressing global challenges.

  • Cultural Policy
  • Innovation
  • Education
  • Theater
  • Science
  • Gender
  • Sustainability
  • Tourism
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Global Challenges
Research works
3.8k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
386
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
63% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Arts, Culture, and Music Studies

Which countries lead Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research?

By volume, Germany and Austria publish the most (642 and 98 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 642 works
  2. 2 Austria 98 works
  3. 3 United States 76 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 57 works
  5. 5 Russia 43 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 32 works
  7. 7 France 26 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 15 works
  9. 9 Denmark 13 works
  10. 10 Italy 12 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: 63.4%Austria: 9.7%United States: 7.5%Switzerland: 5.6%6 others listed: 13.8%63%largest
Germany642 · 63.4%Austria98 · 9.7%United States76 · 7.5%Switzerland57 · 5.6%6 others listed140 · 13.8%

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

Which institutions lead Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna publishes the most Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research, followed by University of Cologne and University of Hildesheim.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaAustria 38 works
  2. 2 University of CologneGermany 16 works
  3. 3 University of HildesheimGermany 16 works
  4. 4 Freie Universität BerlinGermany 15 works
  5. 5 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 15 works
  6. 6 Universität HamburgGermany 15 works
  7. 7 Philipps University of MarburgGermany 14 works
  8. 8 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 13 works
  9. 9 University of FreiburgGermany 12 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Arts, Culture, and Music Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Arts, Culture, and Music Studies include Pierre Bourdıeu, O. Schneider and Th. Müller.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 O. Schneider Switzerland 141k citations
  3. 3 Th. Müller United States 87k citations
  4. 4 Thomas J. Meyer United States 80k 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 Arts, Culture, and Music Studies?

The most cited paper in Arts, Culture, and Music Studies is "Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration in Western European Cities: Lessons from Experience, Prospects for the Future" (Beatriz García, 2004), with 424 citations. Next come "Lifestyle Meets Market: Bohemian Entrepreneurs in Creative Industries" (360) and "Die Erlebnisgesellschaft" (345).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cultural Policy and Urban Regeneration in Western European Cities: Lessons from Experience, Prospects for the Future Beatriz García · Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit Nov 2004 424
2 Lifestyle Meets Market: Bohemian Entrepreneurs in Creative Industries Doris Ruth Eikhof, Axel Haunschild · Creativity and Innovation Management 19 Jul 2006 360
3 Die Erlebnisgesellschaft Tristan Stinnesbeck · BesMasters Book chapter 2022 345
4 For art's sake! Artistic and economic logics in creative production Doris Ruth Eikhof, Axel Haunschild · Journal of Organizational Behavior 11 Jun 2007 343
5 Grundfragen der Ästhetik Bild, Musik, Sprache, Körper Ursula Brandstätter 2008 149
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research done?

The largest centres of Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Hamburg (Germany) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vienna.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 75 works
  2. 2 ViennaAustria 67 works
  3. 3 HamburgGermany 32 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 31 works
  5. 5 MunichGermany 30 works
  6. 6 Frankfurt am MainGermany 23 works
  7. 7 FreiburgGermany 20 works
  8. 8 ZurichSwitzerland 19 works
  9. 9 HanoverGermany 19 works
  10. 10 HildesheimGermany 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ViennaAT · 67.0 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Arts, Culture, and Music Studies than the world average.

See Arts, Culture, and Music Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Arts, Culture, and Music Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Leibniz University Hannover, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 10.6%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Leibniz University H…University of MünsterLudwig-Maximilians-U…University of Music …
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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.

Citation 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
1Leibniz University HannoverGermany 66.824.7%31.1×9 +212.9%
2University of Music and Performing Arts ViennaAustria 66.09.1%1729.1×38 +337.7%
3Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 57.69.5%17.6×15 +65.5%
4University of MünsterGermany 53.612.9%27.0×11 +37.9%
5Universität HamburgGermany 51.67.2%20.4×15 +87.8%
6Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 50.511.2%32.0×11 +167.0%
7Freie Universität BerlinGermany 48.94.5%37.8×15 +29.8%
8Ruhr University BochumGermany 48.010.0%25.1×10 +32.4%
9ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 44.67.4%123.0×13 +105.0%
10University of ViennaAustria 43.69.5%18.1×9 +9.5%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Arts, Culture, and Music Studies, country by country

Is Arts, Culture, and Music Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Arts, Culture, and Music Studies.

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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 Arts, Culture, and Music Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Arts, Culture, and Music Studies 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%Arts, Culture, and Music Studies9.6% 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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