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Night-time city culture

Night-time city culture is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 2.3k research works in it since 1951. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the dynamics of urban nightlife, including the development, regulation, and impact of nighttime activities in city spaces. It delves into topics such as the night-time economy, urban governance, safety concerns, and the cultural infrastructure of nightlife. The papers also discuss the revitalization and fragmentation of evening and night-time city areas.

  • Night-time Economy
  • Urban Space
  • City Development
  • Nightlife Regulation
  • Youthful Nightlife
  • Urban Governance
  • Cultural Infrastructure
  • Sociability
  • Safety Concerns
  • City Revitalization
Research works
2.3k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
248
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Night-time city culture

Which countries lead Night-time city culture research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (124 and 81 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 124 works
  2. 2 China 81 works
  3. 3 United States 69 works
  4. 4 France 56 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 50 works
  6. 6 Brazil 27 works
  7. 7 Canada 23 works
  8. 8 Germany 23 works
  9. 9 Ukraine 21 works
  10. 10 Australia 16 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.

Russia: 25.2%China: 16.4%United States: 14.2%France: 11.5%6 others listed: 32.6%25%largest
Russia124 · 25.2%China81 · 16.4%United States69 · 14.2%France56 · 11.5%6 others listed160 · 32.6%

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

Which institutions lead Night-time city culture research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Night-time city culture research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and University College Cork.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 20 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 13 works
  3. 3 University College CorkIreland 5 works
  4. 4 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 5 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 4 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 4 works
  7. 7 The University of MelbourneAustralia 4 works
  8. 8 Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal 4 works
  9. 9 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 3 works
  10. 10 Coventry UniversityUnited Kingdom 3 works

Who are the leading researchers in Night-time city culture?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Night-time city culture include R. A. McPherson and Robin Room.

  1. 1 R. A. McPherson Israel 121k citations
  2. 2 Robin Room Sweden 83k 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 Night-time city culture?

The most cited paper in Night-time city culture is "Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter)" (Kevin Fox Gotham, 2005), with 644 citations. Next come "Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration" (593) and "Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics" (522).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Tourism Gentrification: The Case of New Orleans' Vieux Carre (French Quarter) Kevin Fox Gotham · Urban Studies Jun 2005 644
2 Measure for Measure: Evaluating the Evidence of Culture's Contribution to Regeneration Graeme Lorenzo Evans · Urban Studies May 2005 593
3 Advances in using multitemporal night-time lights satellite imagery to detect, estimate, and monitor socioeconomic dynamics Mia M. Bennett, LAURENCE C. SMITH · Remote Sensing of Environment 25 Feb 2017 522
4 Cities within the City: Do‐It‐Yourself Urbanism and the Right to the City Kurt Iveson · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 24 Apr 2013 466
5 Theorising Urban Playscapes: Producing, Regulating and Consuming Youthful Nightlife City Spaces Paul Chatterton, Robert G. Hollands · Urban Studies 2002 398
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Night-time city culture research done?

The largest centres of Night-time city culture research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Paris (France), Beijing (China) and Saint Petersburg (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Moscow.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 30 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 20 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 16 works
  4. 4 Saint PetersburgRussia 12 works
  5. 5 LisbonPortugal 12 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 12 works
  7. 7 PragueCzechia 9 works
  8. 8 YekaterinburgRussia 8 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 7 works
  10. 10 MontrealCanada 7 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MoscowRU · 29.8 works3.9×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Night-time city culture than the world average.

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Is Night-time city culture research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Night-time city culture.

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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 Night-time city culture as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0026% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Night-time city culture 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.

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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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