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Education and Professional Development

Education and Professional Development is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores trends in higher education, focusing on digitalization, pedagogical innovation, professional development, educational technology, sustainability, entrepreneurship, student-centered learning, e-learning, and educational management.

  • Digitalization
  • Pedagogical
  • Innovation
  • Professional Development
  • Educational Technology
  • Sustainability
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Student-Centered Learning
  • E-learning
  • Educational Management
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education and Professional Development

Which countries lead Education and Professional Development research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (2k and 993 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 2k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 993 works
  3. 3 Uzbekistan 243 works
  4. 4 United States 170 works
  5. 5 Kazakhstan 161 works
  6. 6 Mozambique 57 works
  7. 7 Kyrgyzstan 54 works
  8. 8 ?? 48 works
  9. 9 China 34 works
  10. 10 Belarus 33 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.

Russia: 52.6%Ukraine: 26.3%Uzbekistan: 6.4%United States: 4.5%6 others listed: 10.2%53%largest
Russia1,986 · 52.6%Ukraine993 · 26.3%Uzbekistan243 · 6.4%United States170 · 4.5%6 others listed387 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Education and Professional Development research?

By volume in 2022-now, Moscow State Pedagogical University publishes the most Education and Professional Development research, followed by Pedagogical University and Weatherford College.

Who are the leading researchers in Education and Professional Development?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education and Professional Development include Albert Bandura and Paul T. Costa.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Paul T. Costa United States 102k 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 Professional Development?

The most cited paper in Education and Professional Development is "Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization" (James W. Carland, Frank Hoy, William R. Boulton et al., 1984), with 1,462 citations. Next come "Employee Creativity: Personal and Contextual Factors at Work" (677) and "Motivation through conscious goal setting" (630).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Differentiating Entrepreneurs from Small Business Owners: A Conceptualization James W. Carland, Frank Hoy, William R. Boulton et al. · Academy of Management Review Apr 1984 1,462
2 Employee Creativity: Personal and Contextual Factors at Work Greg R. Oldham, Anne R. Cummings · Academy of Management Journal Jun 1996 677
3 Motivation through conscious goal setting Edwin A. Locke · Applied and Preventive Psychology Mar 1996 630
4 Further specification of the five robust factors of personality. John M. Digman, Jillian Inouye · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 1986 572
5 Exercise of Personal Agency Through the Self-Efficacy Mechanism Albert Bandura Book chapter 11 Jun 2014 552
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Where is Education and Professional Development research done?

The largest centres of Education and Professional Development research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kamianets-Podilskyi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 594 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 237 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 131 works
  4. 4 KharkivUkraine 127 works
  5. 5 TashkentUzbekistan 104 works
  6. 6 Nizhny NovgorodRussia 71 works
  7. 7 Kazan’Russia 66 works
  8. 8 AlmatyKazakhstan 63 works
  9. 9 YekaterinburgRussia 59 works
  10. 10 MaputoMozambique 57 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kamianets-PodilskyiUA · 21.8 works139×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Education and Professional Development?

Among universities, judged by research, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, Weatherford College and Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical 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.

0%20%40%mean 14.44%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Moscow State Univers…Vinnytsia Mykhailo K…Weatherford CollegeMoscow State Pedagog…
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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
1Moscow State University of Psychology & EducationRussia 79.133.0%216.3×36 +12.2%
2Weatherford CollegeUnited States 61.09.4%10.8×52 +32.4%
3Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 58.816.8%185.2×25 +86.4%
4Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 57.68.8%210.7×74 +4.2%
5Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 56.915.6%286.1×45 -48.6%
6Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 53.613.9%201.3×25 +52.5%
7Financial UniversityRussia 51.910.7%43.1×35 +13.4%
8Berdyansk State Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 50.715.6%211.3×16 +41.9%
9Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine 50.410.8%127.9×40 +0.9%
10Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 50.39.8%36.4×36 -27.7%

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 Professional Development, country by country

Is Education and Professional Development research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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 Professional Development as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Education and Professional Development0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education and Professional 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 Professional Development10.3% in 202520102020

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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