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Education and Public Policy

Education and Public Policy is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 focuses on the analysis, evaluation, and quality assurance of public policies, particularly in the context of higher education in Brazil. It covers topics such as the SINAES system, educational assessment, innovation, and the social impact of policies. Additionally, it explores science communication and the challenges of implementing remote education during the pandemic.

  • Public Policy
  • Higher Education
  • Evaluation
  • SINAES
  • Quality Assurance
  • Policy Analysis
  • Innovation
  • Educational Assessment
  • Social Impact
  • Science Communication
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
90% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education and Public Policy

Which countries lead Education and Public Policy research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (5.6k and 185 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 5.6k works
  2. 2 Portugal 185 works
  3. 3 United States 167 works
  4. 4 Spain 65 works
  5. 5 ?? 50 works
  6. 6 Mexico 49 works
  7. 7 France 31 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 27 works
  9. 9 Colombia 25 works
  10. 10 Argentina 22 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: 90.0%Portugal: 3.0%United States: 2.7%Spain: 1.1%6 others listed: 3.3%90%largest
Brazil5,579 · 90.0%Portugal185 · 3.0%United States167 · 2.7%Spain65 · 1.1%6 others listed204 · 3.3%

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

Which institutions lead Education and Public Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Education and Public Policy research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 145 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 130 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 122 works
  4. 4 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 119 works
  5. 5 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 106 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 102 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 94 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 91 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 90 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 90 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education and Public Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education and Public Policy include Déborah Carvalho Malta.

  1. 1 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k 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 Public Policy?

The most cited paper in Education and Public Policy is "Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches" (Miguel Caldas, 2003), with 18,967 citations. Next come "Desenvolvimento como liberdade" (3,495) and "O desafio do conhecimento: pesquisa qualitativa em saúde" (2,344).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches Miguel Caldas · Revista de Administração Contemporânea Open access Mar 2003 18,967
2 Desenvolvimento como liberdade Natália Maria Ventura da Silva Alfaya · Scientia Iuris Open access 4 Dec 2013 3,495
3 O desafio do conhecimento: pesquisa qualitativa em saúde Everardo Duarte Nunes · Ciência & Saúde Coletiva Open access Aug 2007 2,344
4 O Desafio do Conhecimento Senhora Silva Lima, Senhora Santos Costa e Silva, Senhora Arimateia Magalhães et al. · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) 5 May 2014 1,577
5 Professores do Brasil: impasses e desafios Marina Muniz Rossa Nunes · Cadernos de Pesquisa Open access Apr 2010 1,440
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Where is Education and Public Policy research done?

The largest centres of Education and Public Policy research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pirassununga and Bento Gonçalves.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 652 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 502 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 272 works
  4. 4 Belo HorizonteBrazil 208 works
  5. 5 CuritibaBrazil 199 works
  6. 6 FlorianópolisBrazil 177 works
  7. 7 Porto AlegreBrazil 162 works
  8. 8 FortalezaBrazil 160 works
  9. 9 SalvadorBrazil 140 works
  10. 10 RecifeBrazil 135 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PirassunungaBR · 22.9 works232×
  2. Bento GonçalvesBR · 20.2 works74×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Education and Public Policy?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 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%30%mean 13.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Fundação Getulio Var…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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 de São PauloBrazil 64.810.1%13.1×144 -9.8%
2Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 61.513.5%15.4×36 +30.7%
3Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 60.710.7%30.8×130 -16.0%
4Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 60.614.7%67.8×42 -34.1%
5Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 58.211.1%38.4×119 -33.2%
6Universidade Federal do Espírito SantoBrazil 57.513.9%36.4×61 -14.5%
7University of MinhoPortugal 57.124.6%6.2×12 -36.9%
8Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 57.010.8%23.4×94 -27.1%
9Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 56.711.5%34.2×122 -33.3%
10Universidade BrasilBrazil 56.717.3%19.3×11 +47.7%

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 Public Policy, country by country

Is Education and Public Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% 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 Public Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.029% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Education and Public Policy0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education and Public Policy 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 Public Policy9.7% 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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