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Contemporary art, education, critique

Contemporary art, education, critique is a research topic within Cultural Studies. Science Explorer counts 4.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.5% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics in cultural studies, education innovations, and social theories. It includes discussions on innovative pedagogies, digital labor theory, urban ambiances, ethnographic art practices, globalization, neoliberalism, community-based fabrication workshops, prison literature, artivism, and the construction of cultural memory.

  • Innovative Pedagogies
  • Digital Labour Theory
  • Urban Ambiances
  • Ethnographic Art Practices
  • Globalization
  • Neoliberalism
  • Community-Based Fabrication Workshops
  • Prison Literature
  • Artivism
  • Cultural Memory
Research works
4.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
466
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+102%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Contemporary art, education, critique

Which countries lead Contemporary art, education, critique research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (1k and 172 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 1k works
  2. 2 United States 172 works
  3. 3 Uzbekistan 166 works
  4. 4 Canada 86 works
  5. 5 Belgium 71 works
  6. 6 ?? 63 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 53 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 36 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 35 works
  10. 10 Mexico 31 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.

France: 58.6%United States: 10.0%Uzbekistan: 9.6%Canada: 5.0%6 others listed: 16.8%59%largest
France1,009 · 58.6%United States172 · 10.0%Uzbekistan166 · 9.6%Canada86 · 5.0%6 others listed289 · 16.8%

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

Which institutions lead Contemporary art, education, critique research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Contemporary art, education, critique research, followed by Université Rennes 2 and Université de Lyon.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 200 works
  2. 2 Université Rennes 2France 45 works
  3. 3 Université de LyonFrance 39 works
  4. 4 Turkmen State Pedagogical Institute named Seidnazar SeydiTurkmenistan 29 works
  5. 5 IQ SamhällsbyggnadSweden 25 works
  6. 6 Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 24 works
  7. 7 National Pedagogic UniversityMexico 23 works
  8. 8 Université de LorraineFrance 23 works
  9. 9 Nantes UniversitéFrance 23 works
  10. 10 Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Contemporary art, education, critique?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Contemporary art, education, critique include Pierre Bourdıeu, Bruno Latour and Ronald L. Rivest.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  3. 3 Ronald L. Rivest 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 Contemporary art, education, critique?

The most cited paper in Contemporary art, education, critique is "Comment décrire les objets techniques ?" (Madeleine Akrich, 2010), with 263 citations. Next come "LA TECHNIQUE DE CULTURE CONTINUE THÉORIE ET APPLICATIONS" (174) and "The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres" (165).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Comment décrire les objets techniques ? Madeleine Akrich · Techniques & culture Open access 2010 263
2 LA TECHNIQUE DE CULTURE CONTINUE THÉORIE ET APPLICATIONS Jacques Monod · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1978 174
3 The art of the stage set as a paradigm for an aesthetics of atmospheres Gernot Böhme · Ambiances Open access 2013 165
4 Maurice Godet's Third Body Yves Berthier · Tribology series Book chapter 1996 91
5 La recherche-projet en design et la question de la question de recherche : essai de clarification conceptuelle Alain Findeli · Sciences du Design Open access 9 Apr 2015 88
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Contemporary art, education, critique research done?

The largest centres of Contemporary art, education, critique research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Rennes (France), Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Lyon (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Turkmenabat and Namangan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 285 works
  2. 2 RennesFrance 74 works
  3. 3 TashkentUzbekistan 57 works
  4. 4 LyonFrance 57 works
  5. 5 NamanganUzbekistan 36 works
  6. 6 ToulouseFrance 36 works
  7. 7 NantesFrance 33 works
  8. 8 MontrealCanada 30 works
  9. 9 TurkmenabatTurkmenistan 29 works
  10. 10 StockholmSweden 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TurkmenabatTM · 28.7 works243×
  2. NamanganUZ · 36.3 works132×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Contemporary art, education, critique than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Contemporary art, education, critique?

Among universities, judged by research, Université de Lyon, Université du Québec à Montréal and Aix-Marseille Université 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 10.17%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Université du Québec…Aix-Marseille Univer…Université de LyonUniversité Lille Nor…
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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
1Université de LyonFrance 82.09.2%32.1×39 +153.6%
2Université du Québec à MontréalCanada 75.516.3%31.5×14 +36.9%
3Aix-Marseille UniversitéFrance 73.612.3%35.8×22 +73.2%
4Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 64.87.3%24.2×19 +54.5%
5Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 63.98.1%23.6×21 +97.9%
6Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 63.88.4%15.7×20 +60.9%
7Université de LorraineFrance 61.98.4%31.6×23 +114.0%
8Université Paris 1 Panthéon-SorbonneFrance 61.811.7%49.9×15 +16.6%
9Université Sorbonne NouvelleFrance 61.09.3%105.4×24 +174.5%
10Université de PoitiersFrance 60.410.7%53.2×13 +316.1%

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 Contemporary art, education, critique, country by country

Is Contemporary art, education, critique research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 102% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Contemporary art, education, critique.

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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 Contemporary art, education, critique as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0048% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Contemporary art, education, critique0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Contemporary art, education, critique 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%Contemporary art, education, critique9.5% in 202520102020

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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