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Diverse Musicological Studies

Diverse Musicological Studies is a research topic within Music. Science Explorer counts 22k 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 music, culture, and environmental sustainability, with a focus on ecomusicology, ethnomusicology, and applied ethnomusicology. It delves into topics such as indigenous knowledge, data citation, digital resources, music's role in peacebuilding, and the conservation of cultural heritage. The papers also address issues of social justice and community empowerment through music.

  • Ecomusicology
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Cultural Conservation
  • Music and Peacebuilding
  • Indigenous Knowledge
  • Digital Resource
  • Data Citation
  • Applied Ethnomusicology
  • Social Justice
Research works
22k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diverse Musicological Studies

Which countries lead Diverse Musicological Studies research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (970 and 459 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 970 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 459 works
  3. 3 China 457 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 375 works
  5. 5 Russia 284 works
  6. 6 India 220 works
  7. 7 Germany 173 works
  8. 8 Australia 160 works
  9. 9 Canada 154 works
  10. 10 Brazil 153 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: 28.5%Türkiye: 13.5%China: 13.4%United Kingdom: 11.0%6 others listed: 33.6%28%largest
United States970 · 28.5%Türkiye459 · 13.5%China457 · 13.4%United Kingdom375 · 11.0%6 others listed1,144 · 33.6%

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

Which institutions lead Diverse Musicological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Medical Library Association publishes the most Diverse Musicological Studies research, followed by Herzen University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Medical Library AssociationUnited States 69 works
  2. 2 Herzen UniversityRussia 47 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 39 works
  5. 5 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 32 works
  6. 6 Human Growth FoundationUnited States 28 works
  7. 7 Mahasarakham UniversityThailand 28 works
  8. 8 Transylvania University of BrașovRomania 28 works
  9. 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  10. 10 University of MariborSlovenia 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diverse Musicological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diverse Musicological Studies include David John Hunter and Jonathan A C Sterne.

  1. 1 David John Hunter Australia 211k citations
  2. 2 Jonathan A C Sterne United Kingdom 188k 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 Diverse Musicological Studies?

The most cited paper in Diverse Musicological Studies is "Audio Set: An ontology and human-labeled dataset for audio events" (Jort Florent Gemmeke, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Dylan Freedman et al., 2017), with 3,098 citations. Next come "CNN architectures for large-scale audio classification" (2,540) and "Hiding messages in DNA microdots" (641).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Audio Set: An ontology and human-labeled dataset for audio events Jort Florent Gemmeke, Daniel P. W. Ellis, Dylan Freedman et al. Conference paper Mar 2017 3,098
2 CNN architectures for large-scale audio classification Shawn Hershey, Sourish Chaudhuri, Daniel P. W. Ellis et al. Conference paper Mar 2017 2,540
3 Hiding messages in DNA microdots Catherine Taylor Clelland, Viviana I. Risca, Carter Bancroft · Nature 10 Jun 1999 641
4 The troponin complex and regulation of muscle contraction Chuck S. Farah, Fernando C. Reinach · The FASEB Journal Jun 1995 572
5 An anthropologist underwater: Immersive soundscapes, submarine cyborgs, and transductive ethnography Stefan Helmreich · American Ethnologist 9 Oct 2007 457
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diverse Musicological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Diverse Musicological Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), London (United Kingdom), Chicago (United States) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Maha Sarakham and Brasov.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 99 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 98 works
  3. 3 ChicagoUnited States 85 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 76 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 75 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 74 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 70 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 57 works
  9. 9 LjubljanaSlovenia 56 works
  10. 10 ParisFrance 50 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Maha SarakhamTH · 28.5 works43×
  2. BrasovRO · 28.0 works38×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diverse Musicological Studies than the world average.

See Diverse Musicological Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Diverse Musicological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Mahasarakham University, The University of Melbourne and Weatherford College 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%20%40%mean 16.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Mahasarakham Univers…The University of Me…Weatherford CollegeUniversity of Hudder…
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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
1Mahasarakham UniversityThailand 85.245.4%55.2×28 +2252.8%
2The University of MelbourneAustralia 56.615.8%4.2×23 +76.9%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 55.99.2%5.9×39 +234.0%
4University of HuddersfieldUnited Kingdom 51.68.9%27.8×14 +38.0%
5Griffith UniversityAustralia 51.235.3%4.0×8 -3.2%
6University of MariborSlovenia 50.913.0%21.4×22 +411.9%
7McGill UniversityCanada 50.413.6%3.3×16 +82.6%
8Transylvania University of BrașovRomania 47.92.6%43.0×28 +115.0%
9University of LjubljanaSlovenia 47.16.2%15.6×32 -15.5%
10University of South AfricaSouth Africa 47.117.8%6.6×14 +133.9%

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 Diverse Musicological Studies, country by country

Is Diverse Musicological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Diverse Musicological 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 Diverse Musicological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Diverse Musicological Studies0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diverse Musicological 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%Diverse Musicological Studies10.1% 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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