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Education and Cultural Studies

Education and Cultural Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1954. 9.7% 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, pedagogy, social sciences, and cultural studies in the contemporary context. It includes discussions on lifelong learning, digital innovations in education, media literacy, youth development, ethics, and the impact of globalization on education and society.

  • Education
  • Social Sciences
  • Pedagogy
  • Cultural Studies
  • Media Literacy
  • Youth Development
  • Ethics
  • Digital Innovations
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Globalization
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-29%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Poland
93% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education and Cultural Studies

Which countries lead Education and Cultural Studies research?

By volume, Poland and the United States publish the most (3.2k and 73 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Poland 3.2k works
  2. 2 United States 73 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 40 works
  4. 4 Czechia 34 works
  5. 5 Russia 22 works
  6. 6 Italy 19 works
  7. 7 Germany 17 works
  8. 8 Slovakia 14 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 12 works
  10. 10 Lithuania 10 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.

Poland: 93.1%United States: 2.1%Ukraine: 1.1%Czechia: 1.0%6 others listed: 2.7%93%largest
Poland3,236 · 93.1%United States73 · 2.1%Ukraine40 · 1.1%Czechia34 · 1.0%6 others listed94 · 2.7%

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

Which institutions lead Education and Cultural Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań publishes the most Education and Cultural Studies research, followed by John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin and Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 226 works
  2. 2 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 204 works
  3. 3 Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 172 works
  4. 4 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 164 works
  5. 5 University of WarsawPoland 155 works
  6. 6 Pontifical University of John Paul II in KrakówPoland 146 works
  7. 7 University of ŁódźPoland 128 works
  8. 8 Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w KrakowiePoland 109 works
  9. 9 Maria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityPoland 94 works
  10. 10 University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 92 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education and Cultural Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education and Cultural Studies include Michel Foucault, Bruno Latour and David Hume.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  3. 3 David Hume Australia 107k 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 Cultural Studies?

The most cited paper in Education and Cultural Studies is "Handbook of socialization theory and research" (Joan E. Grusec, Paul David Hastings, 2007), with 4,993 citations. Next come "Identity in modern society : a social psychological perspective" (332) and "Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence." (311).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Handbook of socialization theory and research Joan E. Grusec, Paul David Hastings 2007 4,993
2 Identity in modern society : a social psychological perspective Bernd C. Simon 2004 332
3 Friendships in Childhood and Adolescence. Catherine L. Bagwell, Michelle E. Schmidt · Guilford Publications Aug 2011 311
4 FUTURE ORIENTATION AND SOCIALIZATION* Gisela Trommsdorff · International Journal of Psychology Open access 12 Feb 1983 306
5 Social and Moral Values: Individual and Societal Perspectives Nancy Eisenberg, Janusz Reykowski, Ervin Staub · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) Open access 5 Aug 2016 124
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education and Cultural Studies research done?

The largest centres of Education and Cultural Studies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), Krakow (Poland), Lublin (Poland) and Poznań (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bydgoszcz, Zielona Góra and Olsztyn.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 638 works
  2. 2 KrakowPoland 547 works
  3. 3 LublinPoland 335 works
  4. 4 PoznańPoland 252 works
  5. 5 ŁódźPoland 171 works
  6. 6 KatowicePoland 157 works
  7. 7 WrocławPoland 129 works
  8. 8 GdańskPoland 111 works
  9. 9 OlsztynPoland 108 works
  10. 10 BydgoszczPoland 102 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BydgoszczPL · 101.7 works192×
  2. Zielona GóraPL · 39.0 works147×
  3. OlsztynPL · 107.6 works133×
  4. LublinPL · 334.7 works132×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Education and Cultural Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and University of Warsaw 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%10%20%mean 11.21%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Kazimierz Wielki Uni…Jagiellonian Univers…Adam Mickiewicz Univ…University of Warsaw
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Kazimierz Wielki University in BydgoszczPoland 64.014.8%403.8×90 +24.1%
2Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 52.410.2%186.4×226 -36.4%
3University of WarsawPoland 51.310.0%100.8×155 -30.7%
4Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 51.110.8%82.1×164 -20.7%
5Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in WarsawPoland 49.98.0%443.6×172 0.0%
6Uniwersytet SWPSPoland 49.916.1%99.9×19 +11.6%
7University of ŁódźPoland 49.411.2%150.5×128 -18.8%
8The Maria Grzegorzewska UniversityPoland 48.710.4%733.9×87 -12.5%
9University of BiałystokPoland 48.69.9%254.3×66 +0.4%
10John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 48.410.7%410.0×204 -23.7%

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 Education and Cultural Studies, country by country

Is Education and Cultural Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 29% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2018.

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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 Cultural Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Education and Cultural Studies0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education 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 counting5%10%15%Education and Cultural Studies9.6% 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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