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Digital Storytelling and Education

Digital Storytelling and Education is a research topic within Speech and Hearing. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the use of digital storytelling as a powerful tool for education, health promotion, and reflective practice. It covers topics such as student engagement, narrative-based learning, technology integration, and the impact of digital storytelling on various skills. The papers also delve into the application of digital storytelling in diverse fields such as language learning, healthcare education, and social work.

  • Digital Storytelling
  • Education
  • Health Promotion
  • Student Learning
  • Narrative
  • Technology Integration
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Reflective Practice
  • Multimedia
  • Cultural Studies
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+37%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Storytelling and Education

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Digital Storytelling and Education research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (1.2k and 849 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 1.2k works
  2. 2 United States 849 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 366 works
  4. 4 China 325 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 200 works
  6. 6 Malaysia 158 works
  7. 7 India 151 works
  8. 8 Canada 146 works
  9. 9 Spain 142 works
  10. 10 Australia 120 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.

Indonesia: 32.9%United States: 23.2%Türkiye: 10.0%China: 8.9%6 others listed: 25.0%33%largest
Indonesia1,205 · 32.9%United States849 · 23.2%Türkiye366 · 10.0%China325 · 8.9%6 others listed917 · 25.0%

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

Which institutions lead Digital Storytelling and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Digital Storytelling and Education research, followed by State University of Malang and State University of Semarang.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Storytelling and Education?

The most cited paper in Digital Storytelling and Education is "Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry" (F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean Clandinin, 1990), with 4,806 citations. Next come "Narrative Inquiry: Multiple Lenses, Approaches, Voices." (1,773) and "“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning" (1,489).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stories of Experience and Narrative Inquiry F. Michael Connelly, D. Jean Clandinin · Educational Researcher Jun 1990 4,806
2 Narrative Inquiry: Multiple Lenses, Approaches, Voices. Susan E. Chase 2005 1,773
3 “Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis · Pedagogies An International Journal 6 Aug 2009 1,489
4 Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom Bernard Robin · Theory Into Practice 26 Jun 2008 1,476
5 What Happens When Teachers Design Educational Technology? The Development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge Matthew J. Koehler, Punya Mishra · Journal of Educational Computing Research Mar 2005 1,439
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Storytelling and Education research done?

The largest centres of Digital Storytelling and Education research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia) and Ankara (Türkiye). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Singaraja.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 132 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 114 works
  3. 3 SemarangIndonesia 71 works
  4. 4 AnkaraTürkiye 70 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 69 works
  6. 6 MalangIndonesia 68 works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 67 works
  8. 8 MedanIndonesia 66 works
  9. 9 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 54 works
  10. 10 SurakartaIndonesia 47 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SingarajaID · 29.0 works12×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Storytelling and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital Storytelling and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Arizona State University, National University of Malaysia and Indonesia University of Education 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%20%40%mean 13.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Arizona State Univer…Education University…National University …Indonesia University…
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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.

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
1Arizona State UniversityUnited States 66.741.6%4.0×12 +39.7%
2National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 60.923.0%5.9×18 +45.9%
3Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 56.34.4%10.3×48 +61.8%
4Education University of Hong KongChina 55.525.5%11.8×8 +184.2%
5Universitas Pendidikan GaneshaIndonesia 55.010.5%15.0×28 +215.3%
6State University of SemarangIndonesia 53.07.6%9.5×34 +158.7%
7Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 50.36.9%10.2×28 +92.2%
8State University of MalangIndonesia 49.92.8%8.2×37 +131.9%
9Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 49.98.6%7.7×27 +83.1%
10University of CalgaryCanada 47.86.4%5.2×17 +36.6%

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 Digital Storytelling and Education, country by country

Is Digital Storytelling and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 37% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Storytelling and 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 Digital Storytelling and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Digital Storytelling and Education0.023% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital Storytelling and 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%Digital Storytelling and 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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