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Crafts, Textile, and Design

Crafts, Textile, and Design is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 9.1k 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 explores the intersection of craft, activism, and well-being, with a focus on topics such as craftivism, feminism, sustainability, and the preservation of cultural heritage. It delves into the role of handcrafts in promoting social change, individual empowerment, and community engagement, while also examining the therapeutic and creative aspects of activities like knitting and textile art. Additionally, it addresses the evolving significance of DIY culture and its impact on contemporary feminist movements.

  • Craftivism
  • Handicraft
  • Feminism
  • Well-being
  • Sustainability
  • Activism
  • Design
  • Knitting
  • Cultural Heritage
  • DIY
Research works
9.1k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
926
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+56%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Crafts, Textile, and Design

Which countries lead Crafts, Textile, and Design research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (574 and 304 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 574 works
  2. 2 India 304 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 286 works
  4. 4 China 255 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 182 works
  6. 6 Italy 107 works
  7. 7 Brazil 99 works
  8. 8 Australia 99 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 87 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 77 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: 27.7%India: 14.7%United Kingdom: 13.8%China: 12.3%6 others listed: 31.5%28%largest
United States574 · 27.7%India304 · 14.7%United Kingdom286 · 13.8%China255 · 12.3%6 others listed651 · 31.5%

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

Which institutions lead Crafts, Textile, and Design research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Crafts, Textile, and Design research, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA and National Institute of Fashion Technology.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 32 works
  2. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 22 works
  3. 3 National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 21 works
  4. 4 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 19 works
  5. 5 Film IndependentUnited States 16 works
  6. 6 University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  7. 7 Aalto UniversityFinland 14 works
  8. 8 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 13 works
  9. 9 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  10. 10 University of MissouriUnited States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Crafts, Textile, and Design?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Crafts, Textile, and Design include Seeram Ramakrishna.

  1. 1 Seeram Ramakrishna Singapore 186k 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 Crafts, Textile, and Design?

The most cited paper in Crafts, Textile, and Design is "THE RISE OF THE CORPORATION IN A CRAFT INDUSTRY: CONFLICT AND CONFORMITY IN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS." (Patricia Thornton, 2002), with 774 citations. Next come "Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection" (743) and "Located accountabilities in technology production" (609).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE RISE OF THE CORPORATION IN A CRAFT INDUSTRY: CONFLICT AND CONFORMITY IN INSTITUTIONAL LOGICS. Patricia Thornton · Academy of Management Journal Feb 2002 774
2 Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection Herbert Blumer · Sociological Quarterly Jun 1969 743
3 Located accountabilities in technology production Lucy A. Suchman · Journal of the Association for Information Systems Open access Sep 2002 609
4 Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory A. CULLIS · Journal of Design History 1989 579
5 Material culture after text: re‐membering things Bjørnar Julius Olsen · Norwegian Archaeological Review Oct 2003 548
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Crafts, Textile, and Design research done?

The largest centres of Crafts, Textile, and Design research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Milan (Italy) and New York (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 72 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 42 works
  3. 3 MilanItaly 40 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 39 works
  5. 5 New DelhiIndia 39 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 36 works
  7. 7 Shah AlamMalaysia 26 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 26 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 25 works
  10. 10 SydneyAustralia 24 works
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Where is the best place to study Crafts, Textile, and Design?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, National Institute of Fashion Technology and University of Manchester 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.

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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
1Politecnico di MilanoItaly 68.611.4%16.1×32 +213.8%
2National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 63.718.0%302.5×21 +238.3%
3University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 60.238.4%3.6×8 +75.2%
4Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 60.019.8%28.4×13 +54.0%
5Aalto UniversityFinland 49.310.5%16.5×14 -20.9%
6Iowa State UniversityUnited States 49.12.9%17.5×19 +55.7%
7University of MissouriUnited States 48.26.0%10.7×12 +189.2%
8Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 47.72.3%10.3×22 +612.5%
9RMIT UniversityAustralia 47.723.6%7.8×8 -10.1%
10Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 46.419.9%4.5×9 +185.1%

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 Crafts, Textile, and Design, country by country

Is Crafts, Textile, and Design research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 56% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Crafts, Textile, and Design.

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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 Crafts, Textile, and Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Crafts, Textile, and Design0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Crafts, Textile, and Design 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%Crafts, Textile, and Design10.4% 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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