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Animal and Plant Science Education

Animal and Plant Science Education is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores human attitudes and interactions with animals and plants, including the willingness to pay for biodiversity conservation, the selection of flagship species, the impact of education on attitudes, cultural influences on species preferences, and ethical considerations in conservation efforts.

  • Conservation
  • Attitudes
  • Biodiversity
  • Flagship Species
  • Animal Preferences
  • Plant Blindness
  • Cultural Salience
  • Education
  • Public Interest
  • Ethical Considerations
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Animal and Plant Science Education

Which countries lead Animal and Plant Science Education research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (1k and 779 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1k works
  2. 2 Brazil 779 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 329 works
  4. 4 Germany 285 works
  5. 5 China 279 works
  6. 6 India 228 works
  7. 7 Australia 205 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 199 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 184 works
  10. 10 Spain 173 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 27.7%Brazil: 21.1%United Kingdom: 8.9%Germany: 7.7%6 others listed: 34.5%28%largest
United States1,021 · 27.7%Brazil779 · 21.1%United Kingdom329 · 8.9%Germany285 · 7.7%6 others listed1,269 · 34.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Animal and Plant Science Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Animal and Plant Science Education research, followed by Universidade de São Paulo and University of Florida.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 53 works
  2. 2 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 30 works
  3. 3 University of FloridaUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 24 works
  5. 5 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 22 works
  6. 6 Leibniz AssociationGermany 22 works
  7. 7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 22 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 22 works
  9. 9 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 19 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Animal and Plant Science Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Animal and Plant Science Education include Sudhir Kumar.

  1. 1 Sudhir Kumar United States 295k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Animal and Plant Science Education?

The most cited paper in Animal and Plant Science Education is "Status and Trends of Amphibian Declines and Extinctions Worldwide" (Simon N. Stuart, Janice S. Chanson, Neil A. Cox et al., 2004), with 4,537 citations. Next come "Attitudes towards science: A review of the literature and its implications" (3,152) and "Accelerating extinction risk from climate change" (2,495).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Status and Trends of Amphibian Declines and Extinctions Worldwide Simon N. Stuart, Janice S. Chanson, Neil A. Cox et al. · Science 15 Oct 2004 4,537
2 Attitudes towards science: A review of the literature and its implications Jonathan Osborne, Shirley Simon, Sue Collins · International Journal of Science Education Open access Sep 2003 3,152
3 Accelerating extinction risk from climate change Mark C. Urban · Science 30 Apr 2015 2,495
4 Basking in reflected glory: Three (football) field studies. Robert B. Cialdini, Richard J. Borden, Avril Thorne et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Sep 1976 2,324
5 Scientists' warning on invasive alien species Petr Pyšek et al. · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ReviewOpen access 25 Jun 2020 2,260
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Animal and Plant Science Education research done?

The largest centres of Animal and Plant Science Education research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), London (United Kingdom) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Manaus.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 95 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 70 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 63 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 57 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 53 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 39 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 38 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 38 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 37 works
  10. 10 AnkaraTürkiye 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ManausBR · 27.8 works10×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Animal and Plant Science Education than the world average.

See Animal and Plant Science Education on the map

Where is the best place to study Animal and Plant Science Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, University of Turin and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 20.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TurinWageningen Universit…Swedish University o…University of Exeter
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 76.133.0%9.3×18 -38.1%
2University of TurinItaly 70.634.5%4.4×13 +85.1%
3Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 62.930.5%12.6×10 -6.3%
4University of ExeterUnited Kingdom 58.922.5%5.8×13 +50.3%
5The University of MelbourneAustralia 54.715.4%2.8×17 +35.3%
6Aarhus UniversityDenmark 54.127.4%2.6×12 +30.8%
7University of FloridaUnited States 51.39.5%5.4×30 -6.9%
8Universidade de São PauloBrazil 50.93.7%2.8×30 +21.4%
9The University of QueenslandAustralia 48.614.5%2.7×13 +21.8%
10Colorado State UniversityUnited States 47.518.6%7.3×14 +3.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Animal and Plant Science Education, country by country

Is Animal and Plant Science Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Animal and Plant Science Education.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Animal and Plant Science Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Animal and Plant Science Education0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Animal and Plant Science Education over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Animal and Plant Science Education10.2% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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