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Education in Rural Contexts

Education in Rural Contexts is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 8.5k research works in it since 1952. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the intersection of rural education and public policy analysis, exploring topics such as teacher perceptions, school inclusion, educational technology in rural areas, social assistance, community engagement, inclusive education, teacher training, and the impact of socioeconomic context on educational outcomes.

  • Rural Education
  • Public Policy
  • Teacher Perceptions
  • School Inclusion
  • Educational Technology
  • Social Assistance
  • Community Engagement
  • Inclusive Education
  • Teacher Training
  • Socioeconomic Context
Research works
8.5k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
832
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
Spain
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education in Rural Contexts

Which countries lead Education in Rural Contexts research?

By volume, Spain and Mexico publish the most (434 and 431 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 434 works
  2. 2 Mexico 431 works
  3. 3 Argentina 314 works
  4. 4 Colombia 243 works
  5. 5 Chile 181 works
  6. 6 Brazil 122 works
  7. 7 Ecuador 120 works
  8. 8 Peru 84 works
  9. 9 United States 83 works
  10. 10 Panama 51 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.

Spain: 21.0%Mexico: 20.9%Argentina: 15.2%Colombia: 11.8%6 others listed: 31.1%21%largest
Spain434 · 21.0%Mexico431 · 20.9%Argentina314 · 15.2%Colombia243 · 11.8%6 others listed642 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Education in Rural Contexts research?

By volume in 2022-now, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas publishes the most Education in Rural Contexts research, followed by National Pedagogic University and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 72 works
  2. 2 National Pedagogic UniversityMexico 43 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 39 works
  4. 4 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 32 works
  5. 5 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 32 works
  6. 6 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 31 works
  7. 7 Departamento de EducaciónSpain 27 works
  8. 8 Universidad César VallejoPeru 23 works
  9. 9 Universidad Nacional de La PlataArgentina 23 works
  10. 10 Universidad VeracruzanaMexico 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education in Rural Contexts?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education in Rural Contexts include Pierre Bourdıeu.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k 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 in Rural Contexts?

The most cited paper in Education in Rural Contexts is "Single-cell analysis of normal and FOXP3-mutant human T cells: FOXP3 expression without regulatory T cell development" (Marc A. Gavin, Troy R. Torgerson, Evan G. Houston et al., 2006), with 777 citations. Next come "Change as the Goal of Educational Research" (251) and "Leadership for Social Justice: Authentic Participation in the Case of a Community Center in Caracas, Venezuela" (202).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Single-cell analysis of normal and FOXP3-mutant human T cells: FOXP3 expression without regulatory T cell development Marc A. Gavin, Troy R. Torgerson, Evan G. Houston et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 14 Apr 2006 777
2 Change as the Goal of Educational Research Luis C. Moll, Stephen Diaz · Anthropology & Education Quarterly Dec 1987 251
3 Leadership for Social Justice: Authentic Participation in the Case of a Community Center in Caracas, Venezuela Katia Paz Goldfarb, Jaime Gerardo Alberto Grinberg · Journal of School Leadership Mar 2002 202
4 Validación de constructo de un instrumento para medir la competencia digital docente de los profesores (CDD) Javier Tourón, Deborah Martín, Enrique Navarro Asencio et al. · Revista Española de Pedagogía Open access 2018 200
5 The Citizen Factory: Schooling and Cultural Production in Bolivia Janise D. Hurtig · American Ethnologist Nov 1999 198
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Where is Education in Rural Contexts research done?

The largest centres of Education in Rural Contexts research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogotá (Colombia) and Madrid (Spain). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Panama City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 143 works
  2. 2 Buenos AiresArgentina 111 works
  3. 3 BogotáColombia 91 works
  4. 4 MadridSpain 89 works
  5. 5 SantiagoChile 72 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 55 works
  7. 7 Panama CityPanama 51 works
  8. 8 MedellínColombia 38 works
  9. 9 LimaPeru 32 works
  10. 10 PamplonaSpain 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Panama CityPA · 51.3 works69×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education in Rural Contexts than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education in Rural Contexts?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad César Vallejo, Universidad de Málaga and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid 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 21.09%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Autónoma…Universidad de MálagaUniversidad César Va…Universidad Metropol…
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
1Universidad César VallejoPeru 76.522.4%41.2×23 +359.0%
2Universidad de MálagaSpain 75.923.6%28.1×18 +38.4%
3Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 71.224.8%14.2×17 -10.8%
4Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 68.614.4%268.9×32 +2062.2%
5Universidad de PanamáPanama 67.821.2%75.5×16 +923.8%
6Universidad Católica de TemucoChile 67.617.5%117.0×12 +65.9%
7Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 63.727.4%13.6×12 -14.1%
8University of ChileChile 61.721.6%19.0×14 -22.5%
9Universidad de GranadaSpain 61.018.0%15.9×18 -11.9%
10Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 59.920.0%9.9×18 -13.1%

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 in Rural Contexts, country by country

Is Education in Rural Contexts research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Education in Rural Contexts.

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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 in Rural Contexts as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.010% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Education in Rural Contexts0.0097% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education in Rural Contexts 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 in Rural Contexts10.1% 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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