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Photographic and Visual Arts

Photographic and Visual Arts is a research topic within Museology. Science Explorer counts 8.6k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the cultural significance of photography and visual arts, delving into topics such as the societal representation, memory, identity, and historical documentation through artistic expression. It also examines the influence of photography on social perception and its role in media studies.

  • Photography
  • Cultural History
  • Visual Arts
  • Societal Representation
  • Memory
  • Identity
  • Artistic Expression
  • Social Perception
  • Historical Documentation
  • Media Studies
Research works
8.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
844
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Photographic and Visual Arts

Which countries lead Photographic and Visual Arts research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (623 and 311 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 623 works
  2. 2 Mexico 311 works
  3. 3 Argentina 218 works
  4. 4 Brazil 153 works
  5. 5 United States 97 works
  6. 6 Colombia 72 works
  7. 7 Chile 65 works
  8. 8 Peru 56 works
  9. 9 France 42 works
  10. 10 Portugal 28 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.

Spain: 37.4%Mexico: 18.7%Argentina: 13.1%Brazil: 9.2%6 others listed: 21.6%37%largest
Spain623 · 37.4%Mexico311 · 18.7%Argentina218 · 13.1%Brazil153 · 9.2%6 others listed361 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Photographic and Visual Arts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad Complutense de Madrid publishes the most Photographic and Visual Arts research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 65 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 62 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 40 works
  4. 4 Universidad de SevillaSpain 39 works
  5. 5 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 38 works
  6. 6 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 37 works
  7. 7 Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 32 works
  8. 8 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 30 works
  9. 9 Universidad de GranadaSpain 29 works
  10. 10 Universidad de MálagaSpain 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Photographic and Visual Arts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Photographic and Visual Arts include Pierre Bourdıeu, David L. Smith and Philippe Dúbois.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 David L. Smith United States 90k citations
  3. 3 Philippe Dúbois Belgium 67k 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 Photographic and Visual Arts?

The most cited paper in Photographic and Visual Arts is "Sociologia da fotografia e da imagem" (Luiz Armando Bagolin, Magali Reis, 2009), with 238 citations. Next come "The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Between Regional Embeddedness and Global Networking" (102) and "So That All Shall Know / Para que todos lo sepan" (90).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sociologia da fotografia e da imagem Luiz Armando Bagolin, Magali Reis · Tempo Social Open access 2009 238
2 The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: Between Regional Embeddedness and Global Networking Beatríz Plaza, Silke N. Haarich · European Planning Studies 12 Jul 2013 102
3 So That All Shall Know / Para que todos lo sepan David Carey · Hispanic American Historical Review 7 Jul 2008 90
4 Huyssen, Andreas, (2002) En busca del futuro perdido. Cultura y memoria en tiempos de globalización : México, FCE, 284 páginas Patricia Funes · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access 2002 88
5 What is a photograph? What is photography? Ariella Azoulay · Philosophy of Photography Mar 2010 84
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Photographic and Visual Arts research done?

The largest centres of Photographic and Visual Arts research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Valencia (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in La Plata and Málaga.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 181 works
  2. 2 Mexico CityMexico 135 works
  3. 3 Buenos AiresArgentina 99 works
  4. 4 ValenciaSpain 51 works
  5. 5 SevilleSpain 46 works
  6. 6 SantiagoChile 45 works
  7. 7 La PlataArgentina 39 works
  8. 8 LimaPeru 37 works
  9. 9 São PauloBrazil 36 works
  10. 10 BarcelonaSpain 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. La PlataAR · 39.5 works83×
  2. MálagaES · 28.0 works38×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Photographic and Visual Arts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Photographic and Visual Arts?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad de Granada and Universidad de Valladolid 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%10%20%mean 15.7%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de Valla…Universidad de GranadaUniversidad Complute…Universidad de Sevilla
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 78.714.1%45.8×64 -14.1%
2Universidad de GranadaSpain 75.314.8%32.2×29 +25.1%
3Universidad de ValladolidSpain 72.617.8%35.2×17 +24.2%
4Universidad de SevillaSpain 71.112.0%42.7×39 +21.0%
5Universitat de ValènciaSpain 70.118.1%19.3×17 +0.2%
6Universidad Rey Juan CarlosSpain 66.913.4%44.3×18 +28.6%
7Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPeru 65.018.0%56.2×13 +101.1%
8Universidad Nacional de Educación a DistanciaSpain 64.617.8%46.7×14 +57.0%
9Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaSpain 62.013.5%56.5×32 -8.5%
10Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 60.217.5%29.5×21 -17.7%

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 Photographic and Visual Arts, country by country

Is Photographic and Visual Arts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Photographic and Visual Arts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0081% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Photographic and Visual Arts0.0072% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Photographic and Visual Arts 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%Photographic and Visual Arts9.7% 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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