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Cognitive Science and Education Research

Cognitive Science and Education Research is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of physics, cognitive science, and philosophy to understand the nature of mind, cognition, consciousness, language, emotions, and symbolic culture. It delves into topics such as neural networks, music, aesthetic emotions, philosophy of engineering, and the physics of selfhood.

  • Physics of Mind
  • Cognition
  • Consciousness
  • Language
  • Emotions
  • Neural Networks
  • Symbolic Culture
  • Philosophy of Engineering
  • Music
  • Aesthetic Emotions
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+17%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cognitive Science and Education Research

Which countries lead Cognitive Science and Education Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (436 and 150 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 436 works
  2. 2 China 150 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 79 works
  4. 4 India 72 works
  5. 5 Germany 71 works
  6. 6 Russia 56 works
  7. 7 Italy 49 works
  8. 8 Canada 46 works
  9. 9 Japan 45 works
  10. 10 France 42 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: 41.7%China: 14.3%United Kingdom: 7.5%India: 6.9%6 others listed: 29.5%42%largest
United States436 · 41.7%China150 · 14.3%United Kingdom79 · 7.5%India72 · 6.9%6 others listed308 · 29.5%

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

Which institutions lead Cognitive Science and Education Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Cannuflow (United States) publishes the most Cognitive Science and Education Research research, followed by Mitchell Institute and Central Intelligence Agency.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Cannuflow (United States)United States 16 works
  2. 2 Mitchell InstituteUnited States 14 works
  3. 3 Central Intelligence AgencyUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 12 works
  5. 5 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 6 works
  7. 7 Sasol (Germany)Germany 5 works
  8. 8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 5 works
  9. 9 The University of TokyoJapan 5 works
  10. 10 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cognitive Science and Education Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cognitive Science and Education Research include Yoshua Bengio, Daniel J. Kahneman and Karl John Friston.

  1. 1 Yoshua Bengio Canada 476k citations
  2. 2 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  3. 3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  4. 4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Trevor William Robbins United Kingdom 199k citations
  7. 7 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  8. 8 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k 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 Cognitive Science and Education Research?

The most cited paper in Cognitive Science and Education Research is "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." (George Miller, 1956), with 17,806 citations. Next come "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (9,856) and "Black Holes and Entropy" (7,550).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information. George Miller · Psychological Review Mar 1956 17,806
2 The Mathematical Theory of Communication Claude E. Shannon, Warren Weaver, Norbert Wiener · Physics Today Sep 1950 9,856
3 Black Holes and Entropy Jacob D. Bekenstein · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 15 Apr 1973 7,550
4 Human Memory: A Proposed System and its Control Processes R. C. Atkinson, Richard M. Shiffrin · ˜The œPsychology of learning and motivation/˜The œpsychology of learning and motivation Book chapterOpen access 1968 7,147
5 Perceptual symbol systems Lawrence W. Barsalou · Behavioral and Brain Sciences Aug 1999 6,855
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Where is Cognitive Science and Education Research research done?

The largest centres of Cognitive Science and Education Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Moscow (Russia) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Washington D.C..

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 37 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 27 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 23 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 18 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 17 works
  7. 7 Stevens PointUnited States 16 works
  8. 8 PortlandUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 13 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Washington D.C.US · 27.2 works5.1×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Is Cognitive Science and Education Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 17% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Cognitive Science and Education Research.

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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 Cognitive Science and Education Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0059% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Cognitive Science and Education Research 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.

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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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