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Education Methods and Practices

Education Methods and Practices is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 7k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact and implementation of Montessori education, focusing on child development, alternative education methods, teacher training, looping classroom environments, early childhood education, educational philosophy, student achievement, social justice education, and cognitive development.

  • Montessori Education
  • Child Development
  • Alternative Education
  • Teacher Training
  • Looping Classroom
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Educational Philosophy
  • Student Achievement
  • Social Justice Education
  • Cognitive Development
Research works
7k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
705
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+28%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
42% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education Methods and Practices

Which countries lead Education Methods and Practices research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (294 and 75 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 294 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 75 works
  3. 3 China 65 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 56 works
  5. 5 India 51 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 50 works
  7. 7 Australia 30 works
  8. 8 Poland 28 works
  9. 9 Philippines 28 works
  10. 10 Canada 27 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.

United States: 41.8%Indonesia: 10.7%China: 9.3%Türkiye: 7.9%6 others listed: 30.3%42%largest
United States294 · 41.8%Indonesia75 · 10.7%China65 · 9.3%Türkiye56 · 7.9%6 others listed213 · 30.3%

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

Which institutions lead Education Methods and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Yogyakarta State University publishes the most Education Methods and Practices research, followed by Georgia State University and University of Gothenburg.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 6 works
  2. 2 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 6 works
  3. 3 University of GothenburgSweden 6 works
  4. 4 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 6 works
  5. 5 University of KansasUnited States 5 works
  6. 6 Cebu Technological UniversityPhilippines 5 works
  7. 7 University of VirginiaUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 5 works
  9. 9 University of GdańskPoland 5 works
  10. 10 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 4 works

What are the most cited papers in Education Methods and Practices?

The most cited paper in Education Methods and Practices is "Field-Dependent and Field-Independent Cognitive Styles and Their Educational Implications" (Herman A. Witkin, Carol Ann Moore, DR Goodenough et al., 1977), with 2,052 citations. Next come "Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants" (1,558) and "Processes affecting scores on "understanding of others" and "assumed similarity."" (1,397).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Field-Dependent and Field-Independent Cognitive Styles and Their Educational Implications Herman A. Witkin, Carol Ann Moore, DR Goodenough et al. · Review of Educational Research Open access Mar 1977 2,052
2 Large number discrimination in 6-month-old infants Fei Xu, Elizabeth S. Spelke · Cognition 2000 1,558
3 Processes affecting scores on "understanding of others" and "assumed similarity." Lee J. Cronbach · Psychological Bulletin May 1955 1,397
4 From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development Geri Fox · Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry May 2002 1,145
5 Early math matters: Kindergarten number competence and later mathematics outcomes. Nancy C. Jordan, David E. Kaplan, Chaitanya Ramineni et al. · Developmental Psychology Open access 2009 1,143
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Where is Education Methods and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Education Methods and Practices research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Yogyakarta (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 16 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 12 works
  4. 4 YogyakartaIndonesia 11 works
  5. 5 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 11 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 10 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 8 works
  8. 8 AtlantaUnited States 7 works
  9. 9 JakartaIndonesia 7 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 7 works
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Is Education Methods and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 28% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Education Methods and Practices.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Education Methods and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0056% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Education Methods and Practices 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.

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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

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