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Education Methods and Technologies

Education Methods and Technologies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 13k 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 concept of competence in education and training, covering topics such as teaching and learning methods, teacher education, e-learning, qualitative content analysis, and the impact of digital technologies on education. It also delves into the evaluation and improvement of educational quality, as well as the development of curricula to enhance learning outcomes.

  • Competence
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Teaching
  • Qualitative Inhaltsanalyse
  • E-Learning
  • Teacher Education
  • Didactics
  • Digital Learning
  • Curriculum
Research works
13k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
77% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education Methods and Technologies

Which countries lead Education Methods and Technologies research?

By volume, Germany and Switzerland publish the most (2.1k and 255 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 2.1k works
  2. 2 Switzerland 255 works
  3. 3 Austria 220 works
  4. 4 United States 54 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 20 works
  6. 6 China 15 works
  7. 7 Estonia 15 works
  8. 8 Denmark 14 works
  9. 9 Netherlands 13 works
  10. 10 South Korea 13 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.

Germany: 77.0%Switzerland: 9.5%Austria: 8.2%United States: 2.0%6 others listed: 3.3%77%largest
Germany2,072 · 77.0%Switzerland255 · 9.5%Austria220 · 8.2%United States54 · 2.0%6 others listed90 · 3.3%

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

Which institutions lead Education Methods and Technologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Education Methods and Technologies research, followed by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences and University of Duisburg-Essen.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 118 works
  2. 2 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 76 works
  3. 3 University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 55 works
  4. 4 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 54 works
  5. 5 University of MünsterGermany 52 works
  6. 6 Technische Universität DresdenGermany 50 works
  7. 7 University of CologneGermany 45 works
  8. 8 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 43 works
  9. 9 Paderborn UniversityGermany 40 works
  10. 10 Universität HamburgGermany 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education Methods and Technologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education Methods and Technologies include Albert Bandura, Christof Koch and J. Große-Knetter.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Christof Koch United States 137k citations
  3. 3 J. Große-Knetter France 118k citations
  4. 4 Edgar Erdfelder Germany 114k 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 Methods and Technologies?

The most cited paper in Education Methods and Technologies is "Buchbesprechungen" (Alexander Pundt, 2006), with 3,771 citations. Next come "Stichwort: Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften" (1,437) and "PISA 2000: Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern im internationalen Vergleich" (925).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Buchbesprechungen Alexander Pundt · Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O Jul 2006 3,771
2 Stichwort: Professionelle Kompetenz von Lehrkräften Jürgen Baumert, Mareike Kunter · Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft Dec 2006 1,437
3 PISA 2000: Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern im internationalen Vergleich Jürgen Baumert, Eckhard Klieme, Michael W. Neubrand et al. 2001 925
4 Generic dimensions of teaching quality: the German framework of Three Basic Dimensions Anna‐Katharina Praetorius, Eckhard Klieme, Benjamin Herbert et al. · ZDM 8 Feb 2018 680
5 Leistungsmessungen in Schulen Franz Emanuel Weinert 2001 593
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education Methods and Technologies research done?

The largest centres of Education Methods and Technologies research in 2022-now are Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Zurich (Switzerland), Berlin (Germany) and Vienna (Austria). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Baden bei Wien and Ludwigsburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Frankfurt am MainGermany 133 works
  2. 2 ZurichSwitzerland 113 works
  3. 3 BerlinGermany 109 works
  4. 4 ViennaAustria 93 works
  5. 5 HamburgGermany 91 works
  6. 6 CologneGermany 84 works
  7. 7 MunichGermany 84 works
  8. 8 EssenGermany 81 works
  9. 9 MünsterGermany 62 works
  10. 10 DresdenGermany 60 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Baden bei WienAT · 24.5 works848×
  2. LudwigsburgDE · 21.4 works249×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Tübingen and Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 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%mean 13.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Christian-Albrechts-…University of TübingenUniversity of CologneUniversity of Duisbu…
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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
1University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 68.713.4%58.1×55 +15.7%
2University of TübingenGermany 67.315.6%20.7×21 +42.1%
3Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 65.221.6%18.9×14 -13.3%
4University of CologneGermany 63.315.3%43.0×45 -12.5%
5Universität HamburgGermany 62.413.5%21.0×37 -29.1%
6Paderborn UniversityGermany 61.620.6%120.5×40 -43.4%
7ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 60.83.2%298.8×76 +239.6%
8Technische Universität DresdenGermany 60.66.0%37.2×50 +39.1%
9Martin Luther University Halle-WittenbergGermany 58.514.7%55.7×27 -2.4%
10University of PotsdamGermany 58.115.8%34.3×20 -0.4%

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 Methods and Technologies, country by country

Is Education Methods and Technologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Methods and Technologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Education Methods and Technologies0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education Methods and 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 Methods and Technologies9.6% 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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