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Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation

Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 31k 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 temporal, spatial, and social aspects of cultural heritage studies, focusing on topics such as adaptive reuse, intangible heritage, sustainable development, community participation, heritage conservation, urban development, UNESCO World Heritage sites, cultural sustainability, historic buildings, and social value. The papers critically examine the recognition and misrecognition of community heritage, the challenges and opportunities in adaptive reuse of heritage buildings for sustainable urban development, and the role of cultural diversity and human rights in heritage management.

  • Adaptive Reuse
  • Intangible Heritage
  • Sustainable Development
  • Community Participation
  • Heritage Conservation
  • Urban Development
  • UNESCO World Heritage
  • Cultural Sustainability
  • Historic Buildings
  • Social Value
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation

Which countries lead Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 665 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 665 works
  3. 3 Italy 646 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 600 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 490 works
  6. 6 Australia 325 works
  7. 7 Spain 322 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 292 works
  9. 9 India 252 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 227 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.

China: 24.3%United States: 13.2%Italy: 12.8%United Kingdom: 11.9%6 others listed: 37.8%24%largest
China1,228 · 24.3%United States665 · 13.2%Italy646 · 12.8%United Kingdom600 · 11.9%6 others listed1,908 · 37.8%

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

Which institutions lead Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research?

By volume in 2022-now, Politecnico di Milano publishes the most Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Sapienza University of Rome.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 77 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 58 works
  3. 3 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 40 works
  4. 4 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 39 works
  5. 5 Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 36 works
  6. 6 University of FlorenceItaly 36 works
  7. 7 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
  8. 8 University of BolognaItaly 35 works
  9. 9 Politecnico di TorinoItaly 33 works
  10. 10 University of Naples Federico IIItaly 31 works

What are the most cited papers in Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation?

The most cited paper in Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation is "Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory" (Mark Jamieson, Alfred Gell, 1999), with 1,937 citations. Next come "A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation" (1,443) and "The cultural biography of objects" (1,162).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory Mark Jamieson, Alfred Gell · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Dec 1999 1,937
2 A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation Stephen Thomas Garnett, Neil D. Burgess, Julia E. Fa et al. · Nature Sustainability Open access 9 Jul 2018 1,443
3 The cultural biography of objects Chris Gosden, Yvonne Marshall · World Archaeology Oct 1999 1,162
4 Making anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture Tim Ingold 2013 1,126
5 Dissonant heritage: The management of the past as a resource in conflict C. Michael Hall · Annals of Tourism Research 1997 1,050
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research done?

The largest centres of Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Milan (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Maha Sarakham and Sarajevo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 163 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 156 works
  3. 3 IstanbulTürkiye 125 works
  4. 4 MilanItaly 93 works
  5. 5 RomeItaly 92 works
  6. 6 ShanghaiChina 84 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 73 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 73 works
  9. 9 AnkaraTürkiye 72 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 69 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Maha SarakhamTH · 20.5 works20×
  2. SarajevoBA · 24.8 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation?

Among universities, judged by research, Prince Sultan University, Delft University of Technology and Politecnico di Milano 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%20%40%mean 22.42%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Prince Sultan Univer…Delft University of …Universiti Sains Mal…Politecnico di Milano
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.

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
1Prince Sultan UniversitySaudi Arabia 66.239.3%12.0×10 -
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 66.124.7%7.0×36 +31.3%
3Politecnico di MilanoItaly 64.39.4%13.9×77 +41.1%
4Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 58.919.1%6.0×30 +106.3%
5Qatar UniversityQatar 58.133.9%4.8×11 +73.5%
6Macau University of Science and TechnologyChina 55.515.4%11.7×19 +132.9%
7Politecnico di TorinoItaly 54.818.8%9.5×33 +1.1%
8University of BolognaItaly 54.713.9%5.5×36 +33.2%
9Beijing University of Civil Engineering and ArchitectureChina 53.726.4%13.8×15 +924.6%
10University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 53.223.3%3.0×18 +123.1%

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 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation, country by country

Is Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation.

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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 Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.040% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation0.039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation 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%Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation10.2% 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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