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

这是迄今为止第一篇采用知识图谱分析来深入了解公共艺术研究领域的文章，这是一个涉及艺术、空间和社区地理问题的多学科领域。本研究使用 CiteSpace 制图软件提供的文献计量分析和知识可视化工具来审查自 1964 年以来关于“公共艺术”的学术期刊输出——这是该术语首次出现在 Web of Science 核心合集数据库索引的文章中，涵盖英语 -语言期刊出版物。该分析揭示了文献计量分析的价值，用于将公共艺术的增长和流行数据纳入研究领域——这既被视为研究领域，又被视为研究话语。因此，本研究构建了知识图谱，从而构建了趋势、公共艺术研究领域中出现的热门话题以及作者和机构网络。这种知识图谱展示了公共艺术研究中跨学科联系的“元地理学”（这些知识图谱本身也可以呈现为艺术品）。因此，这项研究为学者们提供了新的参考点，以将自己定位于公共艺术研究领域，并进一步深化文献计量研究。