# 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W566586761) · 10,998 citations
2. [Welcome to the experience economy](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2909363130) · 2,564 citations
3. [Foundations of the Theory of Signs (1938)](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2920733670) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2928125163) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3080743651) · 789 citations
6. [Innovations and changes in the ICD‐11 classification of mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2908444276) · 768 citations
7. [Predatory journals: no definition, no defence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2995110542) · 727 citations · Free PDF
8. [The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2972145160) · 637 citations · Free PDF
9. [Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2943469809) · 630 citations
10. [The Unreality of Time](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2098575484) · 628 citations
11. [SECOND LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2917548179) · 606 citations
12. [Setting an Agenda for Positive Psychology in SLA: Theory, Practice, and Research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2915069625) · 572 citations
13. [Explain Me This: Creativity, Competition, and the Partial Productivity of Constructions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2912470563) · 520 citations
14. [Art, Creativity, and the Potential of Artificial Intelligence](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2917855746) · 491 citations · Free PDF
15. [Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W1592577398) · 446 citations
16. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2043188034) · 404 citations
17. [What drives success in English medium taught courses? The interplay between language proficiency, academic skills, and motivation](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2922506673) · 392 citations
18. [A Positive Psychology perspective on Chinese EFL students’ trait emotional intelligence, foreign language enjoyment and EFL learning achievement](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2944762731) · 381 citations
19. [What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A realist review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2973039372) · 381 citations
20. [Towards a better understanding of the L2 Learning Experience, the Cinderella of the L2 Motivational Self System](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2925304772) · 368 citations · Free PDF
21. [Critical Literacy as a Way of Being and Doing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3011010027) · 357 citations
22. [Foreign Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Performance: A Meta‐Analysis](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2978685979) · 348 citations
23. [Chaos, Territory, Art. Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W594783900) · 325 citations
24. [The impact of using machine translation on EFL students’ writing](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2914159168) · 324 citations
25. [On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W3044168202) · 323 citations

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