Most-cited Arts and Humanities papers of 2019, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Arts and Humanities research papers published in 2019, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. American Economic Review
   Esther Duflo · 2019 · 10,998 citations
2. Welcome to the experience economy
   Paul Benneworth · 2019 · 2,564 citations
3. Foundations of the Theory of Signs (1938)
   Hongwei Jia · 2019 · 1,192 citations
4. Surface chromium on Terracotta Army bronze weapons is neither an ancient anti-rust treatment nor the reason for their good preservation
   Marcos Martinón‐Torres, Xiuzhen Janice Li et al. · 2019 · 1,089 citations · Free PDF
5. What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?: A scoping review
   Daisy E. Fancourt, Saoirse Finn · 2019 · 789 citations
6. Innovations and changes in the ICD‐11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders
   Geoffrey M. Reed, Michael B. First et al. · 2019 · 768 citations
7. Predatory journals: no definition, no defence
   Agnes Grudniewicz, David Moher et al. · 2019 · 727 citations · Free PDF
8. The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research
   Jean‐Marc Dewaele, Xinjie Chen et al. · 2019 · 637 citations · Free PDF
9. Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises
   Janae Davis, Alex A. Moulton et al. · 2019 · 630 citations
10. The Unreality of Time
    J. Ellis Mctaggart · 2019 · 628 citations
11. SECOND LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT
    Yasser Teimouri, Julia Goetze et al. · 2019 · 606 citations
12. Setting an Agenda for Positive Psychology in SLA: Theory, Practice, and Research
    Peter D. MacIntyre, Tammy Gregersen et al. · 2019 · 572 citations
13. Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions
    Adele Eva Goldberg · 2019 · 520 citations
14. Art, Creativity, and the Potential of Artificial Intelligence
    Marian Mazzone, Ahmed Elgammal · 2019 · 491 citations · Free PDF
15. Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art
    Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky et al. · 2019 · 446 citations
16. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
    Mary Wollstonecraft · 2019 · 404 citations
17. What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation
    Heath Rose, Samantha M. Curle et al. · 2019 · 392 citations
18. A Positive Psychology perspective on Chinese EFL students’ trait emotional intelligence, foreign language enjoyment and EFL learning achievement
    Chengchen Li · 2019 · 381 citations
19. What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review
    Kerryn Husk, Kelly V. Blockley et al. · 2019 · 381 citations
20. Towards a better understanding of the L2 Learning Experience, the Cinderella of the L2 Motivational Self System
    Zoltán Dörnyei · 2019 · 368 citations · Free PDF
21. Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing
    Vivian Maria Vasquez, Hilary Janks et al. · 2019 · 357 citations
22. Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Performance: A Meta‐Analysis
    Xian Zhang · 2019 · 348 citations
23. Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth
    Elizabeth Grosz · 2019 · 325 citations
24. The impact of using machine translation on EFL students’ writing
    Sangmin‐Michelle Lee · 2019 · 324 citations
25. On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
    Naomi Klein · 2019 · 323 citations

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