The Landscape of Public Art Research: A Knowledge Map Analysis

This is the first article to date that employs a knowledge map analysis provide insights into landscape of public art research, multidisciplinary area concerned with issues around geographies art, space, and community. study uses bibliometric visualization tools provided by CiteSpace mapping software review scholarly journal output on “public art” since 1964—which occurrence this term in an indexed Web Science Core Collection database covering English-language publications. The reveals value for engaging data growth popularity as research landscape—which perceived both field discourse. Accordingly, constructs maps, thereby trends, popular topics networks authors institutions have emerged landscape. Such maps exhibit “metageography” cross-disciplinary connections within (where these themselves can be rendered artworks, too). study, such, provides new reference points scholars position in, further deepen investigation into, research.