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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. 22.6% 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%
4.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
22.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+29%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Fashion and Cultural Textiles research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (835 and 417 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 835 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 417 works
  3. 3 China 320 works
  4. 4 India 295 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 198 works
  6. 6 Brazil 155 works
  7. 7 Italy 132 works
  8. 8 Australia 124 works
  9. 9 France 117 works
  10. 10 Türkiye 105 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: 30.9%United Kingdom: 15.5%China: 11.8%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 30.8%31%largest
United States835 · 30.9%United Kingdom417 · 15.5%China320 · 11.8%India295 · 10.9%6 others listed831 · 30.8%

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

Which institutions lead Fashion and Cultural Textiles research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Iowa State University publishes the most Fashion and Cultural Textiles research, followed by National Institute of Fashion Technology and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 32 works
  2. 2 National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 31 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 27 works
  4. 4 University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  5. 5 Cornell UniversityUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 Helwan UniversityEgypt 19 works
  7. 7 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 19 works
  8. 8 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 18 works
  9. 9 Louisiana State UniversityUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Beijing Institute of Fashion TechnologyChina 16 works

Where is Fashion and Cultural Textiles research done?

The largest centres of Fashion and Cultural Textiles research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 London United Kingdom 116 works
  2. 2 New York United States 65 works
  3. 3 Beijing China 60 works
  4. 4 New Delhi India 51 works
  5. 5 Shanghai China 38 works
  6. 6 Paris France 37 works
  7. 7 Melbourne Australia 36 works
  8. 8 Bandung Indonesia 36 works
  9. 9 Surabaya Indonesia 35 works
  10. 10 São Paulo Brazil 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. AmesUS · 32.4 works20×
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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, Aalto University, University of the Arts London and Takoradi Technical University 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 31.59%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Aalto University: 10, 38.9%University of the Arts London: 26, 28.0%Takoradi Technical University: 12, 47.5%Toronto Metropolitan University: 9, 35.1%National Institute of Fashion Technology: 31, 27.3%Helwan University: 19, 19.5%RMIT University: 11, 41.6%Iowa State University: 32, 16.6%Manchester Metropolitan University: 19, 31.3%University of Technology Sydney: 15, 30.1%Takoradi Technical U…Aalto UniversityToronto Metropolitan…University of the Ar…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Aalto UniversityFinland 69.738.9%8.5×10 +211.3%
2 University of the Arts LondonUnited Kingdom 69.428.0%170.7×26 +81.7%
3 Takoradi Technical UniversityGhana 69.047.5%148.4×12 —
4 Toronto Metropolitan UniversityCanada 67.635.1%10.8×9 +275.8%
5 National Institute of Fashion TechnologyIndia 67.527.3%302.2×31 +42.9%
6 Helwan UniversityEgypt 67.319.5%22.9×19 +678.6%
7 RMIT UniversityAustralia 67.141.6%7.8×11 +113.5%
8 Iowa State UniversityUnited States 66.216.6%21.8×32 +99.0%
9 Manchester Metropolitan UniversityUnited Kingdom 64.931.3%28.1×19 +4.5%
10 University of Technology SydneyAustralia 64.630.1%8.2×15 +127.3%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Fashion and Cultural Textiles research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 29% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.