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Education and Critical Thinking Development

Education and Critical Thinking Development is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 impact of instructional interventions on critical thinking skills in various educational contexts, including nursing education. It includes meta-analyses, literature reviews, and studies on teaching strategies to promote higher-order thinking and 21st-century skills. The papers also delve into the relationship between critical thinking dispositions and skills, as well as the challenges and methods for assessing and fostering critical thinking abilities.

  • Instructional Interventions
  • Critical Thinking Skills
  • Education
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Teaching Strategies
  • Nursing Education
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Higher-Order Thinking
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Pedagogical Paradigm
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+25%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education and Critical Thinking Development

Which countries lead Education and Critical Thinking Development research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (6.6k and 2.3k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 6.6k works
  2. 2 United States 2.3k works
  3. 3 Türkiye 780 works
  4. 4 China 695 works
  5. 5 Malaysia 567 works
  6. 6 India 559 works
  7. 7 Philippines 502 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 376 works
  9. 9 Pakistan 361 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 338 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: 50.3%United States: 17.6%Türkiye: 6.0%China: 5.3%6 others listed: 20.7%50%largest
Indonesia6,563 · 50.3%United States2,301 · 17.6%Türkiye780 · 6.0%China695 · 5.3%6 others listed2,703 · 20.7%

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

Which institutions lead Education and Critical Thinking Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Education and Critical Thinking Development research, followed by Yogyakarta State University and State University of Malang.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 304 works
  2. 2 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 287 works
  3. 3 State University of MalangIndonesia 282 works
  4. 4 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 275 works
  5. 5 State University of PadangIndonesia 215 works
  6. 6 State University of SemarangIndonesia 184 works
  7. 7 State University of MedanIndonesia 168 works
  8. 8 Sebelas Maret UniversityIndonesia 162 works
  9. 9 State University of MakassarIndonesia 159 works
  10. 10 University of MataramIndonesia 133 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education and Critical Thinking Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education and Critical Thinking Development include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k 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 Education and Critical Thinking Development?

The most cited paper in Education and Critical Thinking Development is "Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience." (William A. Gamson, Erving Goffman, 1975), with 10,621 citations. Next come "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics" (9,713) and "Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct" (8,465).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience. William A. Gamson, Erving Goffman · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Nov 1975 10,621
2 Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics Scott Freeman, Sarah L. Eddy, Miles J. McDonough et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 12 May 2014 9,713
3 Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct M. Frank Pajares · Review of Educational Research Open access Sep 1992 8,465
4 Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Justin Kruger, David Alan Dunning · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1999 7,146
5 Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching Paul A. Kirschner, John Sweller, Richard E. Clark · Educational Psychologist Open access May 2006 6,873
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Where is Education and Critical Thinking Development research done?

The largest centres of Education and Critical Thinking Development research in 2022-now are Yogyakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Malang (Indonesia) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Dapitan and Santa Cruz.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 YogyakartaIndonesia 488 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 439 works
  3. 3 MalangIndonesia 426 works
  4. 4 JakartaIndonesia 375 works
  5. 5 SurabayaIndonesia 369 works
  6. 6 SemarangIndonesia 349 works
  7. 7 MedanIndonesia 346 works
  8. 8 MakassarIndonesia 271 works
  9. 9 PadangIndonesia 258 works
  10. 10 SurakartaIndonesia 255 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DapitanPH · 28.7 works52×
  2. Santa CruzPH · 37.1 works42×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education and Critical Thinking Development than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education and Critical Thinking Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Yogyakarta State University, University of Rwanda and University of Ioannina 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%20%40%mean 23.96%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of IoanninaUniversity of Hong K…University of RwandaYogyakarta State Uni…
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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
1Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 62.49.7%31.4×288 +18.9%
2University of RwandaRwanda 61.520.4%19.7×24 +105.9%
3University of IoanninaGreece 60.736.6%4.3×12 +206.4%
4University of Hong KongChina 60.524.0%1.3×19 +56.2%
5Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit UniversityTürkiye 60.135.8%8.0×17 +68.8%
6University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 59.226.0%3.5×35 +53.4%
7Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 59.08.3%22.8×275 +19.7%
8University of HelsinkiFinland 58.038.6%1.4×16 +9.5%
9Jambi UniversityIndonesia 56.210.9%10.7×116 +89.8%
10Boğaziçi UniversityTürkiye 56.129.3%7.3×11 +123.8%

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 Education and Critical Thinking Development, country by country

Is Education and Critical Thinking Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 25% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Education and Critical Thinking Development.

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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 Education and Critical Thinking Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.10% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Education and Critical Thinking Development0.076% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education and Critical Thinking Development 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%Education and Critical Thinking Development9.9% 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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