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Fashion and Cultural Textiles

Fashion and Cultural Textiles is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 19k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents an interdisciplinary study of fashion and clothing, encompassing topics such as material culture, identity, sociology, digital media, embodiment, globalization, sustainability, and cultural studies. The papers explore the social, cultural, economic, and historical dimensions of fashion and its impact on individuals and societies.

  • Fashion
  • Clothing
  • Material Culture
  • Identity
  • Sociology
  • Digital Media
  • Embodiment
  • Globalization
  • Sustainability
  • Cultural Studies
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
31% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fashion and Cultural Textiles

Which countries lead Fashion and Cultural Textiles research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (919 and 455 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 919 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 455 works
  3. 3 China 379 works
  4. 4 India 333 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 213 works
  6. 6 Brazil 169 works
  7. 7 Italy 152 works
  8. 8 Australia 139 works
  9. 9 France 125 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 119 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: 30.6%United Kingdom: 15.2%China: 12.6%India: 11.1%6 others listed: 30.5%31%largest
United States919 · 30.6%United Kingdom455 · 15.2%China379 · 12.6%India333 · 11.1%6 others listed917 · 30.5%

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

Which institutions lead Fashion and Cultural Textiles research?

By volume in 2022-now, Iowa State University publishes the most Fashion and Cultural Textiles research, followed by National Institute of Fashion Technology and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 33 works
  2. 2 National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 32 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 31 works
  4. 4 University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 31 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 28 works
  6. 6 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 21 works
  7. 7 Cornell UniversityUnited States 20 works
  8. 8 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 20 works
  9. 9 Beijing Institute of Fashion TechnologyChina 20 works
  10. 10 Helwan UniversityEgypt 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fashion and Cultural Textiles?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fashion and Cultural Textiles include Victoria Clarke and Huan Liu.

  1. 1 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  2. 2 Huan Liu Australia 148k 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 Fashion and Cultural Textiles?

The most cited paper in Fashion and Cultural Textiles is "Culture and Consumption: A Theoretical Account of the Structure and Movement of the Cultural Meaning of Consumer Goods" (Grant McCracken, 1986), with 2,834 citations. Next come "Evolution and Tinkering" (2,741) and "Consumption and Theories of Practice" (2,614).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Culture and Consumption: A Theoretical Account of the Structure and Movement of the Cultural Meaning of Consumer Goods Grant McCracken · Journal of Consumer Research Open access Jun 1986 2,834
2 Evolution and Tinkering François Jacob · Science 10 Jun 1977 2,741
3 Consumption and Theories of Practice Alan Warde · Journal of Consumer Culture 15 Jun 2005 2,614
4 Netnography: Doing Ethnographic Research Online Stephanie O’Donohoe · International Journal of Advertising 2010 1,999
5 Materialism: Trait Aspects of Living in the Material World Russell W. Belk · Journal of Consumer Research Dec 1985 1,956
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fashion and Cultural Textiles research done?

The largest centres of Fashion and Cultural Textiles research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ames.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 127 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 69 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 67 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 52 works
  5. 5 MelbourneAustralia 41 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 40 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 40 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 40 works
  9. 9 MilanItaly 39 works
  10. 10 MoscowRussia 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmesUS · 33.1 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fashion and Cultural Textiles than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fashion and Cultural Textiles?

Among universities, judged by research, Politecnico di Milano, RMIT University and Manchester Metropolitan University 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 17.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →RMIT UniversityPolitecnico di MilanoUniversity of Manche…Manchester Metropoli…
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
1Politecnico di MilanoItaly 80.229.7%7.1×20 +48.2%
2RMIT UniversityAustralia 78.633.0%9.3×14 +12.8%
3Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 70.113.8%32.3×21 +188.5%
4University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 69.020.3%4.9×16 +45.0%
5University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 65.48.4%206.7×31 +33.9%
6Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 64.830.2%4.1×14 +28.6%
7Louisiana State UniversityUnited States 62.415.1%12.7×18 +190.9%
8National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 62.38.0%320.8×32 +216.0%
9Iowa State UniversityUnited States 61.73.4%21.3×33 +36.1%
10The University of MelbourneAustralia 60.517.4%3.5×16 +32.0%

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 Fashion and Cultural Textiles, country by country

Is Fashion and Cultural Textiles research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Fashion and Cultural Textiles.

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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 Fashion and Cultural Textiles as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Fashion and Cultural Textiles0.019% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fashion and Cultural Textiles 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%Fashion and Cultural Textiles10.7% 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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