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Education and Digital Technologies

Education and Digital Technologies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1953. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the analysis of social networks, particularly in the context of education and communication. It covers topics such as WebQuests, educational technology, digital literacy, media education, information society, ICT in education, cultural convergence, teacher training, and online learning.

  • Social Network Analysis
  • WebQuests
  • Educational Technology
  • Digital Literacy
  • Media Education
  • Information Society
  • ICT in Education
  • Cultural Convergence
  • Teacher Training
  • Online Learning
Research works
52k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
5.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-23%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
87% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education and Digital Technologies

Which countries lead Education and Digital Technologies research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (11k and 412 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 11k works
  2. 2 United States 412 works
  3. 3 Portugal 391 works
  4. 4 Spain 208 works
  5. 5 Mexico 147 works
  6. 6 ?? 95 works
  7. 7 France 69 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 67 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 65 works
  10. 10 Paraguay 57 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.

Brazil: 87.4%United States: 3.4%Portugal: 3.3%Spain: 1.7%6 others listed: 4.2%87%largest
Brazil11k · 87.4%United States412 · 3.4%Portugal391 · 3.3%Spain208 · 1.7%6 others listed500 · 4.2%

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

Which institutions lead Education and Digital Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul publishes the most Education and Digital Technologies research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade de São Paulo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 244 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 243 works
  3. 3 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 184 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 183 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 148 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 145 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 144 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 143 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 143 works
  10. 10 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil 141 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education and Digital Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education and Digital Technologies include Bruno Lenzi and A. Amorim.

  1. 1 Bruno Lenzi France 114k citations
  2. 2 A. Amorim Portugal 109k 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 Digital Technologies?

The most cited paper in Education and Digital Technologies is "Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel" (Luiz Marcelo Darroz, 2018), with 1,651 citations. Next come "High Access and Low Use of Technologies in High School Classrooms: Explaining an Apparent Paradox" (1,235) and "Information and digital literacies: a review of concepts" (1,203).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel Luiz Marcelo Darroz · Revista Espaço Pedagógico Open access 28 May 2018 1,651
2 High Access and Low Use of Technologies in High School Classrooms: Explaining an Apparent Paradox Larry Cuban, Heather A. Kirkpatrick, Craig M. Peck · American Educational Research Journal 2001 1,235
3 Information and digital literacies: a review of concepts David Bawden · Journal of Documentation Open access Apr 2001 1,203
4 Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC Delci Heinle Klein, Marcelo Augusto Fröhlich, Raquel Dilly Konrath · Revista Acadêmica Licencia&acturas Open access 31 May 2016 1,195
5 Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature Espen Aarseth · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) ReviewOpen access 6 Aug 1997 1,089
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education and Digital Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Education and Digital Technologies research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Curitiba (Brazil) and Brasília (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Orlando, Bento Gonçalves and Lajeado.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.4k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 733 works
  3. 3 CuritibaBrazil 398 works
  4. 4 BrasíliaBrazil 337 works
  5. 5 RecifeBrazil 334 works
  6. 6 FortalezaBrazil 324 works
  7. 7 Belo HorizonteBrazil 317 works
  8. 8 Porto AlegreBrazil 317 works
  9. 9 SalvadorBrazil 295 works
  10. 10 FlorianópolisBrazil 286 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Orlando25.7 works159×
  2. Bento GonçalvesBR · 56.7 works105×
  3. LajeadoBR · 36.3 works78×
  4. CáceresBR · 83.8 works78×
  5. BlumenauBR · 77.1 works76×
  6. CanoasBR · 54.2 works71×
  7. ParanavaíBR · 47.7 works67×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education and Digital Technologies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education and Digital Technologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do ABC, Universidad Tecnológica Intercontinental and Universidad San Pedro 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%20%40%mean 15.89%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Tecnológ…Universidade Federal…Universidad San PedroInstituto Federal do…
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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
1Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil 67.420.1%29.6×47 +11.2%
2Universidad Tecnológica IntercontinentalParaguay 67.328.7%304.3×12 +52.3%
3Universidad San PedroPeru 63.319.9%49.7×25 +46.4%
4Instituto Federal do AmazonasBrazil 62.618.0%121.4×40 +15.2%
5Universidade do Estado do AmazonasBrazil 60.110.4%86.0×79 +105.8%
6Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 57.210.2%29.1×244 -32.1%
7Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 55.913.6%30.5×144 -17.1%
8Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 55.714.4%26.6×110 -38.0%
9Universidade Federal Rural de PernambucoBrazil 55.615.4%45.8×79 -18.9%
10Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 55.48.2%41.3×96 +30.5%

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 Education and Digital Technologies, country by country

Is Education and Digital Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% 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 Education and Digital Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.063% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Education and Digital Technologies0.038% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education and Digital Technologies 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 Digital Technologies9.8% 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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