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Creative Drama in Education

Creative Drama in Education is a research topic within Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Science Explorer counts 2.7k research works in it since 1951. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the impact and implementation of creative drama in education, particularly in relation to student achievement, social skills, and the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals. It also explores the use of qualitative research methods and addresses specific applications in coastal areas of Bangladesh.

  • Creative Drama
  • Education
  • Qualitative Research
  • Social Skills
  • Student Achievement
  • Teaching Method
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Content Analysis
  • Coastal Areas
  • Bangladesh
Research works
2.7k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
279
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+120%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Türkiye
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Creative Drama in Education

Which countries lead Creative Drama in Education research?

By volume, Türkiye and Indonesia publish the most (312 and 146 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Türkiye 312 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 146 works
  3. 3 India 140 works
  4. 4 Malaysia 105 works
  5. 5 United States 98 works
  6. 6 Bangladesh 90 works
  7. 7 Philippines 89 works
  8. 8 China 55 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 48 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 28 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.

Türkiye: 28.1%Indonesia: 13.1%India: 12.6%Malaysia: 9.4%6 others listed: 36.8%28%largest
Türkiye312 · 28.1%Indonesia146 · 13.1%India140 · 12.6%Malaysia105 · 9.4%6 others listed409 · 36.8%

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

Which institutions lead Creative Drama in Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m Bakanliği publishes the most Creative Drama in Education research, followed by University of Malaya and University of Dhaka.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 25 works
  2. 2 University of MalayaMalaysia 13 works
  3. 3 University of DhakaBangladesh 12 works
  4. 4 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 11 works
  5. 5 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 10 works
  6. 6 Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 10 works
  7. 7 Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 9 works
  8. 8 Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 9 works
  9. 9 Ankara Sosyal Bilimler ÜniversitesiTürkiye 7 works
  10. 10 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Creative Drama in Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Creative Drama in Education include Johnny Saldaña.

  1. 1 Johnny Saldaña United States 44k 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 Creative Drama in Education?

The most cited paper in Creative Drama in Education is "Reducing Confusion about Grounded Theory and Qualitative Content Analysis: Similarities and Differences" (Ji Young Cho, Eun‐Hee Lee, 2014), with 1,149 citations. Next come "The Concept of Theme as Used in Qualitative Nursing Research" (762) and "Strategic assessment of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: comparative lockdown scenario analysis, public perception, and management for sustainability" (283).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reducing Confusion about Grounded Theory and Qualitative Content Analysis: Similarities and Differences Ji Young Cho, Eun‐Hee Lee · The Qualitative Report Open access 15 Oct 2014 1,149
2 The Concept of Theme as Used in Qualitative Nursing Research Lydia DeSantis, Doris Noel Ugarriza · Western Journal of Nursing Research Apr 2000 762
3 Strategic assessment of COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh: comparative lockdown scenario analysis, public perception, and management for sustainability Mashura Shammi, Md. Bodrud-Doza, Abu Reza Md. Towfiqul Islam et al. · Environment Development and Sustainability Open access 18 Jul 2020 283
4 Inductive and Deductive: Ambiguous Labels in Qualitative Content Analysis Mohammad Reza Armat, Abdolghader Assarroudi, Mostafa Rad et al. · The Qualitative Report Open access 26 Jan 2018 235
5 Classroom Drama Therapy Program for Immigrant and Refugee Adolescents: A Pilot Study Cécile Rousseau, Maryse Benoît, Marie‐France Gauthier et al. · Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Jul 2007 175
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Where is Creative Drama in Education research done?

The largest centres of Creative Drama in Education research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Istanbul (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dhaka.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 63 works
  2. 2 DhakaBangladesh 50 works
  3. 3 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 44 works
  4. 4 IstanbulTürkiye 34 works
  5. 5 KonyaTürkiye 12 works
  6. 6 ChittagongBangladesh 12 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 12 works
  8. 8 BangkokThailand 12 works
  9. 9 BandungIndonesia 12 works
  10. 10 JakartaIndonesia 11 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DhakaBD · 49.7 works14×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Creative Drama in Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Creative Drama in Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Dhaka, Atatürk University and University of Malaya score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.37143%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of DhakaAtatürk UniversityGazi UniversityUniversity of Malaya
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

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
1University of DhakaBangladesh 72.318.0%25.4×12 -
2Atatürk UniversityTürkiye 52.416.7%20.4×9 +101.6%
3University of MalayaMalaysia 50.01.5%18.8×13 +362.4%
4Gazi UniversityTürkiye 49.911.5%17.2×10 +15.9%
5National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 36.14.0%12.8×11 -
6Necmettin Erbakan UniversityTürkiye 35.810.5%27.8×8 +371.7%
7Sultan Idris Education UniversityMalaysia 24.83.4%38.9×10 -10.0%

Universities only. The score blends 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 Creative Drama in Education, country by country

Is Creative Drama in Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 120% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Creative Drama in 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 Creative Drama in Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Creative Drama in Education0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Creative Drama in 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%Creative Drama in Education10.2% in 202520102020

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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