Visual Studies

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The 792 papers published in Visual Studies in the last decades have received a total of 10.3k indexed citations. Papers published in Visual Studies usually cover Sociology and Political Science (327 papers), Visual Arts and Performing Arts (161 papers) and History (124 papers) specifically the topics of Participatory Visual Research Methods (172 papers), Photography and Visual Culture (111 papers) and Visual Culture and Art Theory (104 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Visual Studies are Douglas Harper, Sarah Pink, Zsófia Hacsek, Richard Chalfen, Tim Edensor, Josh Packard, Wendy Luttrell, Marilys Guillemin, Sarah Drew and Jon Prosser.

In The Last Decade

Visual Studies

561 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Fields of papers published in Visual Studies

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in Visual Studies. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Visual Studies.

Countries where authors publish in Visual Studies

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in Visual Studies. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in Visual Studies with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Visual Studies more than expected).

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar’s output or impact.

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