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Educational and Social Studies

Educational and Social Studies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% 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, pedagogy, and learning. It includes research on family dynamics, narrative approaches to teaching, inclusive education, qualitative research methods, and the role of emotions in the classroom. The cluster also explores the intersection of education with psychology, sociology, and philosophy.

  • Pedagogy
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Family
  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Narrative
  • Cura
  • Inclusion
  • Qualitative
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
986
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Italy
73% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational and Social Studies

Which countries lead Educational and Social Studies research?

By volume, Italy and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 141 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Italy 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 141 works
  3. 3 France 116 works
  4. 4 Spain 69 works
  5. 5 Brazil 53 works
  6. 6 Switzerland 32 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 31 works
  8. 8 Russia 29 works
  9. 9 Germany 28 works
  10. 10 Romania 20 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.

Italy: 72.7%United States: 7.4%France: 6.1%Spain: 3.6%6 others listed: 10.2%73%largest
Italy1,384 · 72.7%United States141 · 7.4%France116 · 6.1%Spain69 · 3.6%6 others listed194 · 10.2%

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

Which institutions lead Educational and Social Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Florence publishes the most Educational and Social Studies research, followed by University of Milan and Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of FlorenceItaly 117 works
  2. 2 University of MilanItaly 67 works
  3. 3 Ca' Foscari University of VeniceItaly 61 works
  4. 4 University of BolognaItaly 60 works
  5. 5 University of TurinItaly 40 works
  6. 6 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 38 works
  7. 7 Roma Tre UniversityItaly 35 works
  8. 8 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 31 works
  9. 9 University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 30 works
  10. 10 University of CataniaItaly 28 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational and Social Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational and Social Studies include Albert Bandura, Pierre Bourdıeu and Michel Foucault.

  1. 1 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  2. 2 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  3. 3 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  4. 4 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  5. 5 Carlo Maria Croce United States 200k citations
  6. 6 Ettore Beghi Italy 163k 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 Educational and Social Studies?

The most cited paper in Educational and Social Studies is "Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction." (Joseph A. Kotarba, Kenneth J. Gergen, 1996), with 1,949 citations. Next come "Specific hungers and poison avoidance as adaptive specializations of learning." (1,168) and "The Playing Learning Child: Towards a pedagogy of early childhood" (569).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction. Joseph A. Kotarba, Kenneth J. Gergen · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews Sep 1996 1,949
2 Specific hungers and poison avoidance as adaptive specializations of learning. Paul N. Rozin, James W. Kalat · Psychological Review 1971 1,168
3 The Playing Learning Child: Towards a pedagogy of early childhood Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maj Asplund Carlsson · Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research Open access 27 Nov 2008 569
4 The quality of talk in children's collaborative activity in the classroom Neil Mercer · Learning and Instruction Dec 1996 564
5 Egocentrism and antisocial behavior: The assessment and training of social perspective-taking skills. Michael J. Chandler · Developmental Psychology Nov 1973 504
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational and Social Studies research done?

The largest centres of Educational and Social Studies research in 2022-now are Rome (Italy), Milan (Italy), Florence (Italy) and Venice (Italy). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Macerata, Venice and Florence.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 RomeItaly 212 works
  2. 2 MilanItaly 156 works
  3. 3 FlorenceItaly 150 works
  4. 4 VeniceItaly 71 works
  5. 5 BolognaItaly 69 works
  6. 6 NaplesItaly 55 works
  7. 7 TurinItaly 49 works
  8. 8 BariItaly 44 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 36 works
  10. 10 PisaItaly 31 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MacerataIT · 20.1 works212×
  2. VeniceIT · 71.5 works108×
  3. FlorenceIT · 149.6 works88×
  4. SienaIT · 28.3 works61×
  5. PerugiaIT · 23.7 works47×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Educational and Social Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Educational and Social Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Florence, University of Bologna and University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 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 12.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Modena…University of TurinUniversity of BolognaUniversity of Florence
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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 FlorenceItaly 56.58.1%107.7×117 +9.4%
2University of BolognaItaly 47.112.8%39.9×60 -46.4%
3University of Modena and Reggio EmiliaItaly 47.025.0%25.3×11 -46.3%
4University of TurinItaly 46.215.0%40.5×40 -52.5%
5University of SalernoItaly 45.218.6%38.7×20 -46.7%
6University of Milano-BicoccaItaly 44.211.4%57.1×30 -35.9%
7University of PerugiaItaly 42.014.3%43.9×18 -35.2%
8University of MilanItaly 41.15.7%57.1×67 +5.4%
9University of GenoaItaly 39.68.7%34.5×20 +20.6%
10University of PaduaItaly 39.08.2%17.6×26 -37.4%

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 Educational and Social Studies, country by country

Is Educational and Social Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% 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 Educational and Social Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0081% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Educational and Social Studies0.0089% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational and Social Studies 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%Educational and Social Studies9.8% 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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