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Sound Studies and Aurality

Sound Studies and Aurality is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 1.7k research works in it since 1951. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interdisciplinary perspectives on mind and society, focusing on the cognitive revolution, digital economy, sound art, avatar technology, online education, philosophy of vocal expression, neural AI plugs, sonic experience, and their intersection with art and literature. It delves into the historical context, contemporary applications, and future implications of cognitive science in various domains.

  • Cognitive Science
  • Digital Economy
  • Sound Art
  • Avatar Technology
  • Online Education
  • Philosophy of Vocal Expression
  • Neural AI Plugs
  • Sonic Experience
  • Art and Literature
  • Human Information-Processing
Research works
1.7k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
181
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+114%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Sound Studies and Aurality

Which countries lead Sound Studies and Aurality research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (238 and 97 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 238 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 97 works
  3. 3 Canada 36 works
  4. 4 France 35 works
  5. 5 Germany 33 works
  6. 6 Brazil 26 works
  7. 7 Russia 24 works
  8. 8 Spain 23 works
  9. 9 Australia 22 works
  10. 10 China 22 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: 42.7%United Kingdom: 17.3%Canada: 6.5%France: 6.3%6 others listed: 27.1%43%largest
United States238 · 42.7%United Kingdom97 · 17.3%Canada36 · 6.5%France35 · 6.3%6 others listed151 · 27.1%

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

Which institutions lead Sound Studies and Aurality research?

By volume in 2022-now, Providence College publishes the most Sound Studies and Aurality research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Film Independent.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Providence CollegeUnited States 14 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  3. 3 Film IndependentUnited States 7 works
  4. 4 Hexagon (United Kingdom)United Kingdom 6 works
  5. 5 University of LausanneSwitzerland 5 works
  6. 6 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 4 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 4 works
  8. 8 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 4 works
  9. 9 University of NottinghamUnited Kingdom 4 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 4 works

What are the most cited papers in Sound Studies and Aurality?

The most cited paper in Sound Studies and Aurality is "Proceedings of the 26th annual conference of the cognitive science society" (Kristien Dieussaert, Marilyn Ford, Leon Horsten, 2004), with 845 citations. Next come "Linking soundscape composition and acoustic ecology" (250) and "Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns" (232).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Proceedings of the 26th annual conference of the cognitive science society Kristien Dieussaert, Marilyn Ford, Leon Horsten 2004 845
2 Linking soundscape composition and acoustic ecology Hildegard Westerkamp · Organised Sound Apr 2002 250
3 Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns David Garrioch · Urban History May 2003 232
4 The Limbic System Conception and Its Historical Evolution Marcelo Ricardo Rosa Roxo, Paulo Roberto Franceschini, Carlos Zúbaran et al. · The Scientific World JOURNAL Open access 2011 161
5 Do Voices Matter? Vocality, Materiality, Gender Performativity Annette Schlichter · Body & Society Mar 2011 151
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Sound Studies and Aurality research done?

The largest centres of Sound Studies and Aurality research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Providence (United States), New York (United States) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in London.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  2. 2 ProvidenceUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 15 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 13 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 11 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 9 works
  7. 7 TorontoCanada 7 works
  8. 8 MadridSpain 7 works
  9. 9 Mexico CityMexico 7 works
  10. 10 CobhamUnited Kingdom 6 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. LondonGB · 21.5 works3.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Sound Studies and Aurality than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Sound Studies and Aurality?

Among universities, judged by research, Providence College 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.

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
1Providence CollegeUnited States 5.07.1%256.9×14 -

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 Sound Studies and Aurality, country by country

Is Sound Studies and Aurality research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 114% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Sound Studies and Aurality.

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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 Sound Studies and Aurality as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0016% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Sound Studies and Aurality 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%Sound Studies and Aurality10.1% in 202520102020

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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