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Diverse Education Studies and Reforms

Diverse Education Studies and Reforms is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 14k 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 multifaceted aspects of homeschooling, including parental involvement, socialization, academic achievement, cultural and political implications, special educational needs, and the debate around regulation and educational policy. It delves into the motivations, challenges, and outcomes associated with homeschooling as an alternative form of education.

  • Homeschooling
  • Parental Involvement
  • Educational Choice
  • Socialization
  • Academic Achievement
  • Cultural Politics
  • Special Educational Needs
  • Regulation
  • Family Education
  • Student Outcomes
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
45% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Diverse Education Studies and Reforms

Which countries lead Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (744 and 268 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 744 works
  2. 2 Brazil 268 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 152 works
  4. 4 China 99 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 80 works
  6. 6 Germany 71 works
  7. 7 Türkiye 67 works
  8. 8 Australia 67 works
  9. 9 Canada 57 works
  10. 10 Poland 56 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: 44.8%Brazil: 16.1%United Kingdom: 9.1%China: 6.0%6 others listed: 24.0%45%largest
United States744 · 44.8%Brazil268 · 16.1%United Kingdom152 · 9.1%China99 · 6.0%6 others listed398 · 24.0%

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

Which institutions lead Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Massachusetts Amherst publishes the most Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research, followed by Georgia State University and Johns Hopkins University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 22 works
  2. 2 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  3. 3 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 10 works
  4. 4 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 9 works
  5. 5 University of VirginiaUnited States 9 works
  6. 6 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 9 works
  7. 7 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 9 works
  8. 8 City University of New YorkUnited States 9 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 9 works
  10. 10 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Diverse Education Studies and Reforms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Diverse Education Studies and Reforms include F. Stuart Chapin.

  1. 1 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 Diverse Education Studies and Reforms?

The most cited paper in Diverse Education Studies and Reforms is "Parental Involvement and Students' Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis" (Xitao Fan, Michael Chen, 2001), with 2,638 citations. Next come "Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement." (2,164) and "Why Do Parents Become Involved in Their Children’s Education?" (1,767).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Parental Involvement and Students' Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analysis Xitao Fan, Michael Chen · Educational Psychology Review Mar 2001 2,638
2 Parental involvement in middle school: A meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Nancy E. Hill, Diana F. Tyson · Developmental Psychology Open access 2009 2,164
3 Why Do Parents Become Involved in Their Children’s Education? Kathleen V. Hoover‐Dempsey, Howard Mark Sandler · Review of Educational Research Mar 1997 1,767
4 Good education in an age of measurement: on the need to reconnect with the question of purpose in education Gert Biesta · Educational Assessment Evaluation and Accountability Open access 2 Dec 2008 1,611
5 Defining Reflection: Another Look at John Dewey and Reflective Thinking Carol R. Rodgers · Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education Apr 2002 1,592
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research done?

The largest centres of Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Amherst Center.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 49 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
  4. 4 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 23 works
  5. 5 Amherst CenterUnited States 22 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 19 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 18 works
  8. 8 ChicagoUnited States 17 works
  9. 9 AtlantaUnited States 16 works
  10. 10 WarsawPoland 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Amherst CenterUS · 22.5 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Diverse Education Studies and Reforms than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Diverse Education Studies and Reforms?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Virginia, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Johns Hopkins University 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.

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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
1University of VirginiaUnited States 61.423.7%7.4×9 +38.1%
2University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 58.70.7%30.9×22 +785.0%
3Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States 56.217.6%3.3×10 +173.5%
4University College LondonUnited Kingdom 49.319.5%2.8×9 +31.2%
5University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 48.521.4%6.6×9 +73.4%
6University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 38.415.2%5.1×9 -28.9%
7Georgia State UniversityUnited States 37.20.6%19.8×12 +168.4%
8City University of New YorkUnited States 24.55.0%8.2×9 -59.3%
9Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 24.26.0%5.8×9 +101.3%
10Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 22.76.5%9.9×9 -11.1%

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 Diverse Education Studies and Reforms, country by country

Is Diverse Education Studies and Reforms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Diverse Education Studies and Reforms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Diverse Education Studies and Reforms0.0087% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Diverse Education Studies and Reforms 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%Diverse Education Studies and Reforms10.7% 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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