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Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences

In research, Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences stands highest in Social Sciences (#6,824 of 14,833 worldwide), over all time.

World rank, 2022-now
#20,044
of 22,385 · #19,526 all time
Rank in China
#2,282
of 2,481
Research works
296
▲ 172% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.5k
5.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.6%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.06×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
18%
world 40%
International
10%
world 18%

What is Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, over all time, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorks
Social SciencesDomain #6,824 of 14,833 7.3%170

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which fields of science does Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences work in?

In 2022-now, 67% of research at Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences is in Social Sciences, 25% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (36%), Psychology (20%), Computer Science (15%). It does 2.5× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 50 fractional works · 67.2% of its workSocial Sciences: 27 fractional works · 35.9% of its workEducation: 14 fractional works · 18.1% of its workSociology and Political Science: 4 fractional works · 6.0% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 4 fractional works · 5.8% of its workDemography: 2 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCommunication: 1 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 1.0% of its workGender Studies: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPsychology: 15 fractional works · 19.7% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 4.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 3 fractional works · 4.1% of its workApplied Psychology: 1 fractional works · 1.1% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 4.4% of its workPhilosophy: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 3 fractional works · 3.6% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 2 fractional works · 2.3% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 2 fractional works · 2.1% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workMarketing: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysical Sciences: 19 fractional works · 25.3% of its workComputer Science: 11 fractional works · 15.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 4 fractional works · 4.8% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 4.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 2 fractional works · 2.2% of its workComputer Science Applications: 1 fractional works · 1.4% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workSoftware: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEnvironmental Science: 3 fractional works · 3.5% of its workHealth, Toxicology and Mutagenesis: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workEcology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMedia Technology: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workGeophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workElectronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMaterials Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workStatistics and Probability: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workChemical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemical Health and Safety: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workChemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 3 fractional works · 4.6% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 3.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysiology: 1 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComplementary and alternative medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Information Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workOccupational Therapy: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLeadership and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 2.9% of its workNeuroscience: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 2 fractional works · 2.6% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workFood Science: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workALL ITS WORKShanghai Academyof Educational…75fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences25%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences67%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences2735.9%
    2. Psychology1519.7%
    3. Arts and Humanities34.4%
    4. Decision Sciences33.6%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance22.3%
    6. Business, Management and Accounting11.3%
    1. Computer Science1115.1%
    2. Environmental Science33.5%
    3. Engineering23.1%
    4. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.8%
    5. Physics and Astronomy10.7%
    6. Materials Science00.7%
    7. Mathematics00.5%
    8. Energy00.4%
    9. Chemical Engineering00.2%
    10. Chemistry00.2%
    1. Medicine23.1%
    2. Health Professions11.3%
    3. Nursing00.2%
    1. Neuroscience22.6%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.3%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.07× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Neuroscience: 1.58× its world share, 2 worksNeuroscienceChemical Engineering: 0.64× its world share, 0 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.14× its world share, 0 worksChemistryComputer Science: 1.94× its world share, 11 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.50× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.21× its world share, 2 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.70× its world share, 3 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.19× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.49× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.16× its world share, 2 worksMedicineNursing: 0.46× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 1.51× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.41× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 3.77× its world share, 3 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 1.08× its world share, 2 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 6.45× its world share, 15 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.84× its world share, 27 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Psychology, 6.5×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 21 fields, with their numbers
  1. Psychology6.45×15 works
  2. Decision Sciences3.77×3 works
  3. Social Sciences2.84×27 works
  4. Computer Science1.94×11 works
  5. Neuroscience1.58×2 works
  6. Arts and Humanities1.51×3 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance1.08×2 works
  8. Environmental Science0.70×3 works
  9. Chemical Engineering0.64×0 works
  10. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.50×1 works
  11. Energy0.49×0 works
  12. Health Professions0.49×1 works
  13. Nursing0.46×0 works
  14. Mathematics0.44×0 works
  15. Business, Management and Accounting0.41×1 works
  16. Physics and Astronomy0.32×0 works
  17. Engineering0.21×2 works
  18. Materials Science0.19×0 works
  19. Medicine0.16×2 works
  20. Chemistry0.14×0 works
  21. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.07×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences?

Ranked on the quality score, Yu-Dong Yang, Lingyuan Gu and 海燕 李 lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences.

  1. 1 Yu-Dong Yang China · #1,818,494 worldwide 941 citations · 37 works
  2. 2 Lingyuan Gu China · #2,177,971 worldwide 362 citations · 17 works
  3. 3 海燕 李 China · #4,738,147 worldwide 3 citations · 23 works
All ranked researchers at Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences

What are the most cited papers from Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences?

The most cited paper from Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences is "Cross-border flows of students for higher education: Push–pull factors and motivations of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and Macau" (Mei Li, Mark Bray, 2007), with 609 citations. Next come "Teaching with Variation: A Chinese Way of Promoting Effective Mathematics Learning" (188) and "Sleep duration in Chinese adolescents: biological, environmental, and behavioral predictors" (148).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cross-border flows of students for higher education: Push–pull factors and motivations of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong and Macau Mei Li, Mark Bray · Higher Education 4 Feb 2007 609
2 Teaching with Variation: A Chinese Way of Promoting Effective Mathematics Learning Lingyuan Gu, Rongjin HUNAG, Ference Marton · Series on mathematical education Book chapter Aug 2004 188
3 Sleep duration in Chinese adolescents: biological, environmental, and behavioral predictors Ting Chen, WU Zeng-qiang, Zhifei Shen et al. · Sleep Medicine Open access 22 Aug 2014 148
4 Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight Maria LC Iurilli et al. · eLife Open access1,381 authors 8 Mar 2021 142
5 Gender differences in high school students’ interest in STEM careers: a multi-group comparison based on structural equation model Ning Wang, Aik‐Ling Tan, Xiaohong Zhou et al. · International Journal of STEM Education Open access 9 Oct 2023 98
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Which keywords describe research at Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Mental Health, Quality Assurance, Neoliberalism, Academic Identity, Internationalization and Student Engagement.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Higher Education5▲ 13×9 topics
  2. Mental Health5▲ 4.7×11 topics
  3. Educational Technology5▲ 5.5×10 topics
  4. Education5▲ 3.6×13 topics
  5. Deep Learning4▲ 1.71×17 topics
  6. Globalization4▲ 3.0×7 topics
  7. Artificial Intelligence4▲ 3.5×11 topics
  8. Quality Assurance4▲ 30×2 topics
  9. Neoliberalism4▲ 13×2 topics
  10. Academic Identity3▲ 158×1 topic
  11. Internationalization3▲ 77×1 topic
  12. Student Engagement3▲ 11×9 topics
  13. Depression3▲ 4.8×6 topics
  14. Emotion Regulation3▲ 13×5 topics
  15. Professional Development3▲ 19×3 topics
  16. Adolescents3▲ 9.8×5 topics
  17. MacIntyre3▲ 2087×1 topic
  18. Teacher Professional Development3▲ 22×3 topics
  19. Teaching as a Practice3▲ 2087×1 topic
  20. Academic Achievement2▲ 20×4 topics
  21. Adolescent Development2▲ 28×6 topics
  22. Online Learning2▲ 3.9×7 topics
  23. Anxiety Disorders2▲ 28×2 topics
  24. Motivation2▲ 7.3×7 topics
  25. Psychopathology2▲ 17×2 topics
  26. Parenting2▲ 24×2 topics
  27. Data Mining2▲ 3.9×6 topics
  28. Behavioral Problems2▲ 33×1 topic
  29. Children2▲ 12×2 topics
  30. Developmental Trajectories2▲ 22×1 topic
  31. Inequality2▲ 12×5 topics
  32. Self-Regulation2▲ 15×4 topics
  33. Social Support2▲ 4.9×8 topics
  34. Well-being2▲ 6.9×6 topics
  35. Nationalism2▲ 5.5×2 topics
  36. China2▲ 24×2 topics
  37. Active Learning2▲ 12×3 topics
  38. Parental Involvement2▲ 12×2 topics
  39. Cloud Computing2▲ 7.2×4 topics
  40. Complexity Theory1▲ 33×2 topics

Which research topics does Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Higher Education Governance and Development, Education, Philosophy, and Society, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development and Chinese history and philosophy.

  1. 1 Higher Education Governance and Development Political Science and International Relations 3 works
  2. 2 Education, Philosophy, and Society Philosophy 3 works
  3. 3 Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Clinical Psychology 2 works
  4. 4 Chinese history and philosophy Sociology and Political Science 2 works
  5. 5 Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods Developmental and Educational Psychology 1 works
  6. 6 Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques Education 1 works
  7. 7 Educational Reforms and Innovations Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 1 works
  8. 8 Evaluation and Performance Assessment Management Science and Operations Research 1 works
  9. 9 Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities Demography 1 works
  10. 10 Teacher Education and Leadership Studies Education 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available18.5%not open81.5%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors9.5%domestic only90.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 172% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00026% in 2024.

still counting0.00025%0.00050%0.00075%Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences0.00050% in 202519801990200020102020

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