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Participatory Visual Research Methods

Participatory Visual Research Methods is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of participatory visual research methods, such as Photovoice and graphic elicitation, in social science research. It explores the engagement of communities, ethical considerations, and empowerment through visual methodologies, emphasizing youth participation and social justice.

  • Photovoice
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Visual Methodologies
  • Youth Participation
  • Community Engagement
  • Ethical Considerations
  • Arts-based Methods
  • Qualitative Inquiry
  • Empowerment
  • Social Justice
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+20%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Participatory Visual Research Methods

Which countries lead Participatory Visual Research Methods research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (865 and 645 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 865 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 645 works
  3. 3 Canada 305 works
  4. 4 Australia 258 works
  5. 5 Spain 112 works
  6. 6 Germany 105 works
  7. 7 Netherlands 97 works
  8. 8 South Africa 83 works
  9. 9 Italy 80 works
  10. 10 Denmark 79 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: 32.9%United Kingdom: 24.6%Canada: 11.6%Australia: 9.8%6 others listed: 21.1%33%largest
United States865 · 32.9%United Kingdom645 · 24.6%Canada305 · 11.6%Australia258 · 9.8%6 others listed555 · 21.1%

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

Which institutions lead Participatory Visual Research Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Participatory Visual Research Methods research, followed by University College London and University of British Columbia.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 34 works
  2. 2 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  3. 3 University of British ColumbiaCanada 22 works
  4. 4 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 21 works
  5. 5 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 19 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 19 works
  8. 8 The University of MelbourneAustralia 17 works
  9. 9 Aalborg UniversityDenmark 17 works
  10. 10 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Participatory Visual Research Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Participatory Visual Research Methods include Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke and Jeremy Grimshaw.

  1. 1 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
  2. 2 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy Grimshaw Canada 281k citations
  4. 4 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  5. 5 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  6. 6 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
  7. 7 Sue Brennan Australia 174k 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 Participatory Visual Research Methods?

The most cited paper in Participatory Visual Research Methods is "Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science" (Laura J. Damschroder, David Clark Aron, Rosalind E. Keith et al., 2009), with 15,434 citations. Next come "Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research" (7,435) and "Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment" (5,551).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Fostering implementation of health services research findings into practice: a consolidated framework for advancing implementation science Laura J. Damschroder, David Clark Aron, Rosalind E. Keith et al. · Implementation Science Open access 7 Aug 2009 15,434
2 Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research Sarah J. Tracy · Qualitative Inquiry Oct 2010 7,435
3 Photovoice: Concept, Methodology, and Use for Participatory Needs Assessment Caroline Wang, Mary Ann Burris · Health Education & Behavior Open access Jun 1997 5,551
4 A refined compilation of implementation strategies: results from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) project Byron J. Powell, Thomas J. Waltz, Matthew Chinman et al. · Implementation Science Open access 10 Feb 2015 5,317
5 Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks Per Nilsén · Implementation Science Open access 20 Apr 2015 4,710
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Where is Participatory Visual Research Methods research done?

The largest centres of Participatory Visual Research Methods research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Melbourne (Australia) and Sydney (Australia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 128 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 63 works
  3. 3 MelbourneAustralia 62 works
  4. 4 SydneyAustralia 45 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  6. 6 MontrealCanada 36 works
  7. 7 ManchesterUnited Kingdom 29 works
  8. 8 EdinburghUnited Kingdom 28 works
  9. 9 BrisbaneAustralia 27 works
  10. 10 AmsterdamNetherlands 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Newcastle upon TyneGB · 26.2 works9.3×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Participatory Visual Research Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Participatory Visual Research Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, University College London, University of Toronto and Monash 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 17.9%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Monash UniversityUniversity College L…University of OxfordUniversity of Toronto
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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 College LondonUnited Kingdom 76.417.0%5.8×29 +16.5%
2University of TorontoCanada 73.212.3%5.3×34 +28.1%
3Monash UniversityAustralia 68.525.7%5.0×15 +21.6%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 60.313.0%4.3×19 +94.7%
5Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom 59.920.8%7.7×11 +42.9%
6King's College LondonUnited Kingdom 57.717.0%4.7×13 +69.5%
7UNSW SydneyAustralia 57.526.2%4.1×12 -29.1%
8University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 56.730.4%4.6×9 -9.1%
9University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 55.63.7%7.5×21 +67.2%
10University of British ColumbiaCanada 55.412.9%5.6×22 -16.4%

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 Participatory Visual Research Methods, country by country

Is Participatory Visual Research Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 20% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Participatory Visual Research Methods.

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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 Participatory Visual Research Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Participatory Visual Research Methods 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%Participatory Visual Research Methods10.0% 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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