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Dutch Social and Cultural Studies

Dutch Social and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 13k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to education, research methods, social work, empowerment, health promotion, and cultural diversity. It explores issues such as teacher development, inclusion in education, empowerment in social care, and the promotion of health in various settings. The cluster reflects a comprehensive exploration of methodologies and practices in the field of social sciences.

  • Research Methods
  • Social Work
  • Education
  • Empowerment
  • Health Promotion
  • Teacher Development
  • Inclusion
  • Youth Care
  • Professionalism
  • Cultural Diversity
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-58%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Netherlands
76% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Dutch Social and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, the Netherlands and Belgium publish the most (628 and 83 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Netherlands 628 works
  2. 2 Belgium 83 works
  3. 3 United States 45 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 17 works
  5. 5 South Africa 14 works
  6. 6 France 11 works
  7. 7 Poland 8 works
  8. 8 Germany 7 works
  9. 9 Canada 7 works
  10. 10 Slovenia 7 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.

Netherlands: 75.9%Belgium: 10.0%United States: 5.4%United Kingdom: 2.1%6 others listed: 6.6%76%largest
Netherlands628 · 75.9%Belgium83 · 10.0%United States45 · 5.4%United Kingdom17 · 2.1%6 others listed55 · 6.6%

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

Which institutions lead Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Wikimedia Nederland publishes the most Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research, followed by Social Historic Centre for Limburg and Radboud University Nijmegen.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Wikimedia NederlandNetherlands 93 works
  2. 2 Social Historic Centre for LimburgNetherlands 44 works
  3. 3 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 34 works
  4. 4 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 33 works
  5. 5 Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 26 works
  6. 6 Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 25 works
  7. 7 Leiden UniversityNetherlands 24 works
  8. 8 University of GroningenNetherlands 22 works
  9. 9 Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 22 works
  10. 10 KU LeuvenBelgium 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Dutch Social and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Dutch Social and Cultural Studies include Dan J. Stein, Martin McKee and Philip Scheltens.

  1. 1 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  2. 2 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k citations
  3. 3 Philip Scheltens Netherlands 194k citations
  4. 4 Arnold B. Bakker Netherlands 189k citations
  5. 5 Wilmar B. Schaufeli Netherlands 158k citations
  6. 6 Maarten Jacobus Postma Netherlands 156k 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 Dutch Social and Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Dutch Social and Cultural Studies is "Qualitative thematic analysis based on descriptive phenomenology" (Annelie J. Sundler, Elisabeth Lindberg, Christina Nilsson et al., 2019), with 1,089 citations. Next come "Bordering, Ordering and Othering" (846) and "What is Evidence-based Education?" (648).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Qualitative thematic analysis based on descriptive phenomenology Annelie J. Sundler, Elisabeth Lindberg, Christina Nilsson et al. · Nursing Open Open access 7 Apr 2019 1,089
2 Bordering, Ordering and Othering Henk van Houtum, Ton van Naerssen · Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie Open access May 2002 846
3 What is Evidence-based Education? Philip R. Davies · British Journal of Educational Studies Jun 1999 648
4 Toward a Comprehensive, Transtheoretical Model of Change Carlo C. DiClemente, James O. Prochaska Book chapter 1998 640
5 Burnout and self‐efficacy: A study on teachers' beliefs when implementing an innovative educational system in the Netherlands Will J. G. Evers, André Brouwers, Welko Tomic · British Journal of Educational Psychology Open access Jun 2002 484
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Utrecht (Netherlands), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Maastricht (Netherlands) and Rotterdam (Netherlands). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tilburg, Utrecht and Maastricht.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 UtrechtNetherlands 165 works
  2. 2 AmsterdamNetherlands 98 works
  3. 3 MaastrichtNetherlands 61 works
  4. 4 RotterdamNetherlands 43 works
  5. 5 NijmegenNetherlands 38 works
  6. 6 LeidenNetherlands 32 works
  7. 7 The HagueNetherlands 28 works
  8. 8 TilburgNetherlands 27 works
  9. 9 GroningenNetherlands 20 works
  10. 10 LeuvenBelgium 20 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TilburgNL · 27.1 works175×
  2. UtrechtNL · 165.3 works169×
  3. MaastrichtNL · 60.8 works157×
  4. The HagueNL · 27.9 works142×
  5. RotterdamNL · 42.9 works76×
  6. NijmegenNL · 37.7 works67×
  7. AmsterdamNL · 98.1 works66×
  8. LeidenNL · 31.6 works54×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Dutch Social and Cultural Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Dutch Social and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University score highest, combining citation 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 13.81%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Amster…Utrecht UniversityVrije Universiteit A…Radboud University N…
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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.

Citation 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
1Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 60.310.8%107.5×33 -4.8%
2University of AmsterdamNetherlands 59.720.3%35.9×16 -49.7%
3Utrecht UniversityNetherlands 54.112.3%47.2×26 -30.5%
4Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 53.08.6%74.8×34 -32.1%
5Leiden UniversityNetherlands 51.512.3%56.9×24 -13.6%
6Tilburg UniversityNetherlands 51.516.5%177.7×22 -7.2%
7University of GroningenNetherlands 50.911.5%42.9×22 -30.3%
8Erasmus University RotterdamNetherlands 50.710.2%61.5×25 -32.0%
9Maastricht UniversityNetherlands 45.417.3%39.8×12 -44.9%
10University of AntwerpBelgium 37.118.3%45.8×12 -26.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Dutch Social and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Dutch Social and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 58% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2013.

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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 Dutch Social and Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0023% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Dutch Social and Cultural Studies0.0039% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Dutch Social and Cultural Studies 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 counting10%20%Dutch Social and Cultural Studies10.6% 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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