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Landscape and Cultural Studies

Landscape and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 3.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the influence of Feng Shui on cultural landscapes, encompassing topics such as landscape architecture, ecological diversity, traditional knowledge, and conservation policy. It delves into the geographical extent and socioecological significance of Feng Shui, as well as its implications for environmental management and urban planning from a cultural perspective.

  • Feng Shui
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Ecological Diversity
  • Traditional Knowledge
  • Environmental Management
  • Urban Planning
  • Conservation Policy
  • Geographical Extent
  • Socioecological Significance
Research works
3.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
364
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+48%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Landscape and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Landscape and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, China and Russia publish the most (156 and 105 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 156 works
  2. 2 Russia 105 works
  3. 3 United States 83 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 81 works
  5. 5 Japan 32 works
  6. 6 France 30 works
  7. 7 Spain 27 works
  8. 8 Germany 22 works
  9. 9 Brazil 20 works
  10. 10 Italy 17 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: 27.3%Russia: 18.3%United States: 14.6%United Kingdom: 14.1%6 others listed: 25.7%27%largest
China156 · 27.3%Russia105 · 18.3%United States83 · 14.6%United Kingdom81 · 14.1%6 others listed147 · 25.7%

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

Which institutions lead Landscape and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Landscape and Cultural Studies research, followed by Department of Archaeology and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 15 works
  2. 2 Department of ArchaeologySri Lanka 10 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 10 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 8 works
  5. 5 English HeritageUnited Kingdom 6 works
  6. 6 Voronezh State University of Forestry and TechnologiesRussia 6 works
  7. 7 Saint Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil EngineeringRussia 5 works
  8. 8 Southeast UniversityChina 5 works
  9. 9 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 5 works
  10. 10 Slovak Academy of SciencesSlovakia 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Landscape and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Landscape and Cultural Studies include Stephen R. Daniels and Edward O. Wilson.

  1. 1 Stephen R. Daniels United States 113k citations
  2. 2 Edward O. Wilson United States 74k 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 Landscape and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Landscape and Cultural Studies is "The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of past Environments" (Allen Carlson, Denis E. Cosgrove, Stephen Daniels, 1989), with 830 citations. Next come "Landscape perception: Research, application and theory" (818) and "WOODPECKERS' TONGUES" (554).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Landscape perception: Research, application and theory Ervin H. Zube, James L. Sell, Jonathan G. Taylor · Landscape and Planning Jul 1982 818
3 WOODPECKERS' TONGUES David Gordon · The Lancet Jul 1976 554
4 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
5 (Re)Reading the Landscape James S. Duncan, Norman Duncan · Environment and Planning D Society and Space Jun 1988 373
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Landscape and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Landscape and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow and London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 28 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 27 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 25 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 15 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 14 works
  6. 6 TokyoJapan 11 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 10 works
  8. 8 ColomboSri Lanka 10 works
  9. 9 YekaterinburgRussia 10 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 9 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 28.0 works3.3×
  2. LondonGB · 24.5 works3.2×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Landscape and Cultural Studies than the world average.

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Is Landscape and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 48% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Landscape and Cultural Studies.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Landscape and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Landscape and Cultural 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%Landscape and Cultural 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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