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Education Systems and Policy

Education Systems and Policy is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 40k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on vocational education and training in Australia, covering topics such as student retention, workforce skill development, rural and regional education, employment patterns, teacher retention, adult literacy and numeracy, youth labour market, and social partnerships.

  • Vocational Education
  • Training Pathways
  • Student Retention
  • Workforce Skill Development
  • Rural and Regional Education
  • Employment Patterns
  • Teacher Retention
  • Adult Literacy and Numeracy
  • Youth Labour Market
  • Social Partnerships
Research works
40k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Education Systems and Policy

Which countries lead Education Systems and Policy research?

By volume, the United States and Australia publish the most (1.5k and 624 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.5k works
  2. 2 Australia 624 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 486 works
  4. 4 South Africa 362 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 284 works
  6. 6 Philippines 227 works
  7. 7 Canada 194 works
  8. 8 India 160 works
  9. 9 China 155 works
  10. 10 Nigeria 126 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: 36.9%Australia: 15.0%United Kingdom: 11.7%South Africa: 8.7%6 others listed: 27.6%37%largest
United States1,534 · 36.9%Australia624 · 15.0%United Kingdom486 · 11.7%South Africa362 · 8.7%6 others listed1,146 · 27.6%

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

Which institutions lead Education Systems and Policy research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Massachusetts Amherst publishes the most Education Systems and Policy research, followed by The University of Melbourne and University of South Africa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of Massachusetts AmherstUnited States 70 works
  2. 2 The University of MelbourneAustralia 55 works
  3. 3 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 54 works
  4. 4 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 37 works
  5. 5 Monash UniversityAustralia 30 works
  6. 6 The University of SydneyAustralia 30 works
  7. 7 Griffith UniversityAustralia 28 works
  8. 8 University of TorontoCanada 28 works
  9. 9 Deakin UniversityAustralia 27 works
  10. 10 University of AucklandNew Zealand 26 works

Who are the leading researchers in Education Systems and Policy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Education Systems and Policy include George Davey Smith, James Thomas and Nicholas G. Martin.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  3. 3 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k 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 Systems and Policy?

The most cited paper in Education Systems and Policy is "Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research" (Vincent Tinto, 1975), with 7,495 citations. Next come "Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms" (7,288) and "Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching" (4,418).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Dropout from Higher Education: A Theoretical Synthesis of Recent Research Vincent Tinto · Review of Educational Research Mar 1975 7,495
2 Funds of knowledge for teaching: Using a qualitative approach to connect homes and classrooms Luis C. Moll, Cathy Amanti, Deborah A. Neff et al. · Theory Into Practice Mar 1992 7,288
3 Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching Lee S. Shulman · Educational Researcher Feb 1986 4,418
4 Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children Rebecca J. Panagos · Remedial and Special Education Nov 1998 4,188
5 The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children. Lisa D. Delpit, Gloria J Ladson-Billings · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Mar 1996 3,530
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Education Systems and Policy research done?

The largest centres of Education Systems and Policy research in 2022-now are Melbourne (Australia), Brisbane (Australia), London (United Kingdom) and Pretoria (South Africa). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mthatha.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MelbourneAustralia 139 works
  2. 2 BrisbaneAustralia 96 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 91 works
  4. 4 PretoriaSouth Africa 90 works
  5. 5 SydneyAustralia 87 works
  6. 6 Amherst CenterUnited States 72 works
  7. 7 Washington D.C.United States 59 works
  8. 8 JohannesburgSouth Africa 59 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 52 works
  10. 10 PerthAustralia 46 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MthathaZA · 24.5 works39×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, The University of Melbourne, Griffith University and Stellenbosch University 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%20%40%mean 25.91%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Stellenbosch Univers…Griffith UniversityThe University of Me…University of Johann…
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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
1The University of MelbourneAustralia 77.723.8%9.8×55 +36.9%
2Griffith UniversityAustralia 72.634.2%13.3×28 +1.4%
3Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 69.735.4%7.5×15 +35.4%
4University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 67.917.7%11.7×37 +79.7%
5University of South AfricaSouth Africa 66.414.3%24.6×54 +118.9%
6University of CanberraAustralia 64.934.3%20.6×16 +51.0%
7University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 64.229.3%5.2×17 +67.0%
8University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.428.6%2.3×17 +48.0%
9University of the WitwatersrandSouth Africa 62.323.0%9.5×21 +32.0%
10University of the Free StateSouth Africa 61.818.5%18.8×22 +129.1%

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 Systems and Policy, country by country

Is Education Systems and Policy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Education Systems and Policy.

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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 Systems and Policy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.035% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%Education Systems and Policy0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Education Systems and 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 Systems and Policy10.5% 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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