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Museums and Cultural Heritage

Museums and Cultural Heritage is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 18k 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 focuses on informal learning in museums and science centers, exploring topics such as visitor experience, family engagement, free-choice learning, and the impact of digital engagement. It also delves into the role of school field trips, interactive exhibits, and cultural sustainability in enhancing museum learning experiences.

  • Museum Learning
  • Informal Education
  • Science Centers
  • Visitor Experience
  • Family Engagement
  • Free-Choice Learning
  • Cultural Sustainability
  • Interactive Exhibits
  • School Field Trips
  • Digital Engagement
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
22% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Museums and Cultural Heritage

Which countries lead Museums and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (584 and 349 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 584 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 349 works
  3. 3 Brazil 326 works
  4. 4 China 301 works
  5. 5 Italy 222 works
  6. 6 Spain 209 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 208 works
  8. 8 France 175 works
  9. 9 Australia 164 works
  10. 10 Germany 143 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: 21.8%United Kingdom: 13.0%Brazil: 12.2%China: 11.2%6 others listed: 41.8%22%largest
United States584 · 21.8%United Kingdom349 · 13.0%Brazil326 · 12.2%China301 · 11.2%6 others listed1,120 · 41.8%

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

Which institutions lead Museums and Cultural Heritage research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Museums and Cultural Heritage research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 40 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 26 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 19 works
  4. 4 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 17 works
  5. 5 Politecnico di MilanoItaly 16 works
  6. 6 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 14 works
  7. 7 Australian National UniversityAustralia 14 works
  8. 8 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 14 works
  9. 9 The University of MelbourneAustralia 14 works
  10. 10 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Museums and Cultural Heritage?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Museums and Cultural Heritage include Pierre Bourdıeu.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k 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 Museums and Cultural Heritage?

The most cited paper in Museums and Cultural Heritage is "Virtual reality: Applications and implications for tourism" (Daniel A. Guttentag, 2009), with 1,739 citations. Next come "The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics" (1,539) and "Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world" (1,218).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Virtual reality: Applications and implications for tourism Daniel A. Guttentag · Tourism Management 24 Aug 2009 1,739
2 The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics Richard Handler · Museum Anthropology Sep 1996 1,539
3 Materialist returns: practising cultural geography in and for a more-than-human world Sarah J. Whatmore · Cultural Geographies Open access 20 Aug 2006 1,218
4 Art and Agency An Anthropological Theory Stephanie Takaragawa · Visual Anthropology Review Sep 1998 1,119
5 Bridging In-school and Out-of-school Learning: Formal, Non-Formal, and Informal Education Haim Eshach · Journal of Science Education and Technology 18 Dec 2006 865
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Where is Museums and Cultural Heritage research done?

The largest centres of Museums and Cultural Heritage research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Paris (France), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and São Paulo (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 93 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 73 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 60 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 59 works
  5. 5 LisbonPortugal 47 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 42 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 41 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 41 works
  9. 9 IstanbulTürkiye 39 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 37 works
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Where is the best place to study Museums and Cultural Heritage?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Amsterdam, University of South Australia and University of Nottingham 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.

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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
1University of AmsterdamNetherlands 64.925.1%3.8×9 +87.3%
2University of South AustraliaAustralia 60.022.8%9.9×8 +468.6%
3University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 58.423.9%3.1×9 +56.2%
4Griffith UniversityAustralia 54.428.0%5.3×9 -19.7%
5University of the AegeanGreece 54.015.5%31.7×11 +86.1%
6Sapienza University of RomeItaly 53.114.9%3.8×17 +96.3%
7Universidad de ValladolidSpain 52.813.1%9.4×11 +16.8%
8University of AveiroPortugal 52.218.4%8.2×10 +18.4%
9Universitat de ValènciaSpain 51.717.9%5.1×11 +81.0%
10Newcastle UniversityUnited Kingdom 50.126.5%4.5×8 -10.7%

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 Museums and Cultural Heritage, country by country

Is Museums and Cultural Heritage research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Museums and Cultural Heritage.

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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 Museums and Cultural Heritage as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Museums and Cultural Heritage 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%Museums and Cultural Heritage10.1% 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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