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Public Spaces through Art

Public Spaces through Art is a research topic within Urban Studies. Science Explorer counts 8.3k research works in it since 1951. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complex dynamics of graffiti and street art in urban spaces, examining their role in negotiating urban landscapes, public expression, social resistance, and cultural heritage. It delves into the tensions between municipal administration and the desires of artists, while also highlighting the political and community identity aspects of these art forms.

  • Graffiti
  • Street Art
  • Urban Space
  • Public Sphere
  • Social Resistance
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Political Expression
  • Creative City
  • Community Identity
  • Municipal Administration
Research works
8.3k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
855
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Public Spaces through Art

Which countries lead Public Spaces through Art research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (297 and 251 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 297 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 251 works
  3. 3 Brazil 239 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 175 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 118 works
  6. 6 China 96 works
  7. 7 Spain 83 works
  8. 8 France 67 works
  9. 9 Germany 59 works
  10. 10 Italy 53 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: 20.6%Türkiye: 17.5%Brazil: 16.6%United Kingdom: 12.2%6 others listed: 33.1%21%largest
United States297 · 20.6%Türkiye251 · 17.5%Brazil239 · 16.6%United Kingdom175 · 12.2%6 others listed477 · 33.1%

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

Which institutions lead Public Spaces through Art research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Public Spaces through Art research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 14 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 12 works
  4. 4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 10 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 10 works
  6. 6 Dokuz Eylül UniversityTürkiye 9 works
  7. 7 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 8 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 8 works
  9. 9 City University of New YorkUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 Arab International UniversitySyria 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Public Spaces through Art?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Public Spaces through Art include Anselm L. Strauss, Reuben M. Baron and Bruno Latour.

  1. 1 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  2. 2 Reuben M. Baron United States 147k citations
  3. 3 Bruno Latour France 129k 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 Public Spaces through Art?

The most cited paper in Public Spaces through Art is "#Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States" (Yarimar Bonilla, Jonathan Rosa, 2015), with 1,116 citations. Next come "Cities in a World of Cities: The Comparative Gesture" (1,023) and "Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel" (880).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 #Ferguson: Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States Yarimar Bonilla, Jonathan Rosa · American Ethnologist Open access 15 Jan 2015 1,116
2 Cities in a World of Cities: The Comparative Gesture Jennifer Robinson · International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 15 Aug 2010 1,023
3 Linguistic Landscape as Symbolic Construction of the Public Space: The Case of Israel Eliezer Ben‐Rafael, Elana Shohamy, Muhammad Hasan Amara et al. · International Journal of Multilingualism 15 Apr 2006 880
4 Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities Harold Garfinkel · Social Problems 1964 776
5 Visual methodologies. An Introduction to the Interpretation of visual materials Joseli Maria Silva · Revista Latino-americana de Geografia e Genero Open access 28 Jun 2012 764
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Where is Public Spaces through Art research done?

The largest centres of Public Spaces through Art research in 2022-now are Istanbul (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom), São Paulo (Brazil) and Ankara (Türkiye).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 IstanbulTürkiye 65 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 54 works
  3. 3 São PauloBrazil 46 works
  4. 4 AnkaraTürkiye 36 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 33 works
  6. 6 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 23 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 23 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 22 works
  9. 9 LisbonPortugal 19 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 19 works
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Where is the best place to study Public Spaces through Art?

Among universities, judged by research, City University of New York, Universidade de São Paulo and University of Cambridge 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
1City University of New YorkUnited States 56.06.9%7.2×8 +2.9%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 41.94.4%3.4×14 -27.0%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 39.31.7%3.4×8 +31.8%
4Dokuz Eylül UniversityTürkiye 36.95.8%15.1×9 +4.5%
5Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 25.33.1%8.1×8 +234.5%
6Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 17.72.0%6.2×10 -36.7%

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 Public Spaces through Art, country by country

Is Public Spaces through Art research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Public Spaces through Art.

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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 Public Spaces through Art as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0091% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Public Spaces through Art 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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