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Education Pedagogy and Practices

Education Pedagogy and Practices is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 60k research works in it since 1951. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to education in Brazil, including qualitative research methods, educational policies, teacher training, curriculum development, inclusive education, social inequality, distance learning, pedagogical practices, educational reform, and critical pedagogy.

  • Qualitative Research
  • Educational Policies
  • Teacher Training
  • Curriculum Development
  • Inclusive Education
  • Social Inequality
  • Distance Learning
  • Pedagogical Practices
  • Educational Reform
  • Critical Pedagogy
Research works
60k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
5.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
90% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education Pedagogy and Practices

Which countries lead Education Pedagogy and Practices research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (14k and 414 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 14k works
  2. 2 United States 414 works
  3. 3 Portugal 381 works
  4. 4 Spain 206 works
  5. 5 Mexico 174 works
  6. 6 ?? 126 works
  7. 7 Paraguay 99 works
  8. 8 France 74 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 67 works
  10. 10 Chile 63 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%United States: 2.6%Portugal: 2.4%Spain: 1.3%6 others listed: 3.8%90%largest
Brazil14k · 90.0%United States414 · 2.6%Portugal381 · 2.4%Spain206 · 1.3%6 others listed603 · 3.8%

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

Which institutions lead Education Pedagogy and Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) publishes the most Education Pedagogy and Practices research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal do Pará.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 343 works
  2. 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 272 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 244 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 232 works
  5. 5 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 206 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 195 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 192 works
  8. 8 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 190 works
  9. 9 Secretaria da EducaçãoBrazil 190 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 189 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education Pedagogy and Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education Pedagogy and Practices include Pierre Bourdıeu, André Faro and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
  3. 3 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Lenzi France 114k citations
  5. 5 A. Amorim Portugal 109k citations
  6. 6 S. Costa France 107k citations
  7. 7 Peter Todd Katzmarzyk United States 99k 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 Pedagogy and Practices?

The most cited paper in Education Pedagogy and Practices is "Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel" (Luiz Marcelo Darroz, 2018), with 1,651 citations. Next come "Professores do Brasil: impasses e desafios" (1,440) and "Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC" (1,195).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel Luiz Marcelo Darroz · Revista Espaço Pedagógico Open access 28 May 2018 1,651
2 Professores do Brasil: impasses e desafios Marina Muniz Rossa Nunes · Cadernos de Pesquisa Open access Apr 2010 1,440
3 Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC Delci Heinle Klein, Marcelo Augusto Fröhlich, Raquel Dilly Konrath · Revista Acadêmica Licencia&acturas Open access 31 May 2016 1,195
4 Base Nacional Comum Curricular Geraldo Antônio da Rosa, Tânia Maris de Azevedo · Letras de Hoje Open access 29 Nov 2022 1,047
5 Multiletramentos na escola Acir Mário Karwoski, Beatriz Gaydeczka · Revista Brasileira de Educação Open access Dec 2013 857
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education Pedagogy and Practices research done?

The largest centres of Education Pedagogy and Practices research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Curitiba (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Orlando, Araguaína and Paranavaí.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 1.9k works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 876 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 466 works
  4. 4 CuritibaBrazil 466 works
  5. 5 FortalezaBrazil 465 works
  6. 6 Belo HorizonteBrazil 404 works
  7. 7 SalvadorBrazil 401 works
  8. 8 BelémBrazil 376 works
  9. 9 RecifeBrazil 359 works
  10. 10 FlorianópolisBrazil 340 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Orlando31.6 works149×
  2. Araguaína20.7 works101×
  3. ParanavaíBR · 79.7 works86×
  4. BlumenauBR · 113.2 works85×
  5. JoaçabaBR · 41.2 works85×
  6. Vitória da ConquistaBR · 131.9 works82×
  7. Bento GonçalvesBR · 57.7 works82×
  8. CanoasBR · 75.7 works76×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Education Pedagogy and Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Education Pedagogy and Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do ABC, Universidade Brasil and Universidade de São Paulo score highest, combining citation 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 16.73%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of LisbonUniversidade Federal…Universidade BrasilUniversidade 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.

Citation 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 Federal do ABCBrazil 67.920.4%28.6×60 +23.2%
2Universidade BrasilBrazil 64.115.2%17.1×26 +62.5%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 63.112.7%8.1×232 -16.6%
4University of LisbonPortugal 61.927.1%2.9×32 -46.2%
5Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 61.612.8%16.9×176 -10.4%
6Universidad San PedroPeru 60.723.7%22.3×15 +8.6%
7Universidade Federal do Oeste do ParáBrazil 58.418.9%56.7×41 +6.9%
8Universidad Europea del AtlánticoSpain 58.412.8%144.5×37 +1416.9%
9Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 58.310.5%76.5×185 +4.6%
10Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 57.713.2%23.6×190 -18.4%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Pedagogy and Practices, country by country

Is Education Pedagogy and Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% 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 Pedagogy and Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.081% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Education Pedagogy and Practices0.055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education Pedagogy 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.

still counting5%10%15%Education Pedagogy and Practices9.7% 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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