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Historical Art and Culture Studies

Historical Art and Culture Studies is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the cultural transfer and artistic exchange in Europe, focusing on topics such as European travel, the Grand Tour, Shakespeare commemoration, Renaissance education, landscape art, portraiture, historical memory, and cosmopolitanism.

  • Cultural Transfer
  • Artistic Exchange
  • European Travel
  • Grand Tour
  • Shakespeare Commemoration
  • Renaissance Education
  • Landscape Art
  • Portraiture
  • Historical Memory
  • Cosmopolitanism
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
France
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical Art and Culture Studies

Which countries lead Historical Art and Culture Studies research?

By volume, France and the United States publish the most (710 and 506 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 France 710 works
  2. 2 United States 506 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 460 works
  4. 4 Italy 103 works
  5. 5 Canada 102 works
  6. 6 Germany 86 works
  7. 7 Russia 75 works
  8. 8 Spain 69 works
  9. 9 Belgium 56 works
  10. 10 Australia 54 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.

France: 32.0%United States: 22.8%United Kingdom: 20.7%Italy: 4.6%6 others listed: 19.9%32%largest
France710 · 32.0%United States506 · 22.8%United Kingdom460 · 20.7%Italy103 · 4.6%6 others listed442 · 19.9%

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

Which institutions lead Historical Art and Culture Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Historical Art and Culture Studies research, followed by University of Oxford and Sorbonne Université.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 189 works
  2. 2 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 39 works
  3. 3 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 33 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 29 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 27 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 Université de LyonFrance 23 works
  8. 8 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 22 works
  9. 9 Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 20 works
  10. 10 Université Grenoble AlpesFrance 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical Art and Culture Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical Art and Culture Studies include John G.F. Cleland, Paul Elliott and Norman K. Denzin.

  1. 1 John G.F. Cleland United Kingdom 198k citations
  2. 2 Paul Elliott United Kingdom 154k citations
  3. 3 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  4. 4 D. G. Charlton Israel 130k citations
  5. 5 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  6. 6 S. L. Lloyd United Kingdom 128k citations
  7. 7 Pete Smith United Kingdom 121k 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 Historical Art and Culture Studies?

The most cited paper in Historical Art and Culture Studies is "Introduction: Inventing Traditions" (Eric Hobsbawm, 2012), with 1,369 citations. Next come "The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments" (830) and "Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship: Language, Law and History in the French Renaissance" (548).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Introduction: Inventing Traditions Eric Hobsbawm · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 26 Mar 2012 1,369
2 The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments Allen Carlson, Denis E. Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1989 830
3 Foundations of Modern Historical Scholarship: Language, Law and History in the French Renaissance Donald R. Kelley, Clemens Rathe · Renaissance and Reformation Open access 31 Dec 1969 548
4 LOUISE DE LA VALLIERE AND THE BIRTH OF THE MAN‐MIDWIFE G Bancroft-Livingston · BJOG An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Apr 1956 380
5 The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism in Britain, 1760-1800 Stephanie Ross, Malcolm Andrews · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1990 378
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical Art and Culture Studies research done?

The largest centres of Historical Art and Culture Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Lyon (France) and Oxford (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 227 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 76 works
  3. 3 LyonFrance 54 works
  4. 4 OxfordUnited Kingdom 44 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 40 works
  6. 6 ToulouseFrance 36 works
  7. 7 CambridgeUnited Kingdom 32 works
  8. 8 Los AngelesUnited States 31 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 29 works
  10. 10 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Historical Art and Culture Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh 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%10%20%30%mean 11.84%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Cambri…Northumbria UniversityUniversity of Edinbu…University of Oxford
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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.

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
1University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 71.710.4%10.3×29 +17.8%
2University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 71.46.3%11.9×39 +38.4%
3University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 63.69.7%10.8×22 +73.4%
4Northumbria UniversityUnited Kingdom 59.19.9%19.1×10 +34.2%
5University of BristolUnited Kingdom 59.021.4%9.9×13 +9.1%
6Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 56.76.7%21.1×33 +1.6%
7KU LeuvenBelgium 52.827.9%3.7×8 -38.4%
8Université de LorraineFrance 52.16.1%30.7×27 +96.3%
9University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 51.413.3%9.9×15 +64.6%
10Université Lille Nord de FranceFrance 51.26.7%20.8×20 +31.0%

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 Historical Art and Culture Studies, country by country

Is Historical Art and Culture Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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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 Historical Art and Culture Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Historical Art and Culture Studies0.0092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical Art and Culture 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%Historical Art and Culture Studies9.6% 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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