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Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions

Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions is a research topic within General Health Professions. Science Explorer counts 6.4k research works in it since 1951. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the experiences, challenges, and development of doctoral students, including topics such as graduate school socialization, research supervision, mental health in academia, publication rates, and career trajectories in the academic and industry sectors.

  • Doctoral Education
  • Graduate School Socialization
  • Research Supervision
  • PhD Student Well-being
  • Academic Career Preparation
  • Publication Rates
  • Mental Health in Academia
  • Postdoctoral Experience
  • Thesis Writing
  • Career Trajectories
Research works
6.4k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
646
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions

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

Which countries lead Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (678 and 203 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 678 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 203 works
  3. 3 China 165 works
  4. 4 Australia 108 works
  5. 5 South Africa 102 works
  6. 6 Canada 91 works
  7. 7 France 55 works
  8. 8 Russia 51 works
  9. 9 Germany 49 works
  10. 10 India 45 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: 43.8%United Kingdom: 13.1%China: 10.7%Australia: 7.0%6 others listed: 25.4%44%largest
United States678 · 43.8%United Kingdom203 · 13.1%China165 · 10.7%Australia108 · 7.0%6 others listed393 · 25.4%

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

Which institutions lead Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research?

By volume in 2022-now, National Research University Higher School of Economics publishes the most Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research, followed by University of Johannesburg and Monash University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 13 works
  2. 2 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 12 works
  3. 3 Monash UniversityAustralia 12 works
  4. 4 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 11 works
  6. 6 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 10 works
  7. 7 Virginia TechUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 9 works
  9. 9 University of Hong KongChina 9 works
  10. 10 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 8 works

Who are the leading researchers in Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions include David Moher, John P. A. Ioannidis and Harlan M. Krumholz.

  1. 1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
  2. 2 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
  3. 3 Harlan M. Krumholz United States 217k citations
  4. 4 Peter B. Reich United States 189k 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 Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions?

The most cited paper in Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions is "Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens" (Heidi B. Carlone, Angela C. Johnson, 2007), with 2,412 citations. Next come "Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences" (1,370) and "Nepotism and sexism in peer-review" (1,366).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color: Science identity as an analytic lens Heidi B. Carlone, Angela C. Johnson · Journal of Research in Science Teaching Open access 11 Sep 2007 2,412
2 Benefits of Undergraduate Research Experiences Susan H. Russell, Mary P. Hancock, James P. McCullough · Science 26 Apr 2007 1,370
3 Nepotism and sexism in peer-review Christine Wennerås, Agnes E. Wold · Nature May 1997 1,366
4 Establishing the benefits of research experiences for undergraduates in the sciences: First findings from a three‐year study Elaine Seymour, Anne‐Barrie Hunter, Sandra L. Laursen et al. · Science Education 26 Apr 2004 1,337
5 The benefits of publishing systematic quantitative literature reviews for PhD candidates and other early-career researchers Catherine Marina Pickering, Jason Byrne · Higher Education Research & Development Open access 11 Nov 2013 1,336
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Where is Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research done?

The largest centres of Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 34 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 29 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 28 works
  4. 4 MelbourneAustralia 26 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 26 works
  6. 6 New YorkUnited States 20 works
  7. 7 PretoriaSouth Africa 20 works
  8. 8 JohannesburgSouth Africa 19 works
  9. 9 MontrealCanada 18 works
  10. 10 Washington D.C.United States 16 works
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Where is the best place to study Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, National Research University Higher School of Economics and Pennsylvania State 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 Hong KongChina 70.340.6%5.0×9 +38.0%
2National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 64.717.9%16.4×13 +22.1%
3Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 56.222.6%5.4×11 +115.0%
4Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 53.519.6%14.4×11 +31.0%
5Monash UniversityAustralia 52.312.0%6.3×12 -0.1%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 51.54.1%10.3×12 +131.2%
7Virginia TechUnited States 38.88.2%9.0×10 +52.1%
8University of OtagoNew Zealand 38.413.2%14.5×8 +66.0%
9University of South AfricaSouth Africa 36.33.1%12.6×10 +18.7%
10University of MichiganUnited States 22.85.6%3.2×9 +25.5%

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 Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions, country by country

Is Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions.

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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 Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0077% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions 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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