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Educational Innovations and Challenges

Educational Innovations and Challenges is a research topic within Information Systems. Science Explorer counts 25k 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 explores the digital transformation and its impact on higher education institutions, focusing on topics such as educational technology, distance learning, e-learning, university management, and student experience. It discusses the challenges, opportunities, and risks associated with the integration of digital technologies in higher education, as well as the pedagogical approaches driving this transformation.

  • Digital Transformation
  • Higher Education
  • Educational Technology
  • Distance Learning
  • E-Learning
  • Pedagogy
  • Digitalization
  • Online Education
  • University Management
  • Student Experience
Research works
25k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+18%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Innovations and Challenges

Which countries lead Educational Innovations and Challenges research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (4.5k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 4.5k works
  2. 2 Ukraine 1.4k works
  3. 3 China 642 works
  4. 4 United States 488 works
  5. 5 Uzbekistan 440 works
  6. 6 Kazakhstan 381 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 327 works
  8. 8 India 162 works
  9. 9 ?? 125 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 107 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.

Russia: 52.6%Ukraine: 16.4%China: 7.5%United States: 5.7%6 others listed: 17.9%53%largest
Russia4,529 · 52.6%Ukraine1,412 · 16.4%China642 · 7.5%United States488 · 5.7%6 others listed1,541 · 17.9%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Innovations and Challenges research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Educational Innovations and Challenges research, followed by Moscow State Pedagogical University and Financial University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 143 works
  2. 2 Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 142 works
  3. 3 Financial UniversityRussia 115 works
  4. 4 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 115 works
  5. 5 Pedagogical UniversityMozambique 98 works
  6. 6 The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationRussia 80 works
  7. 7 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 80 works
  8. 8 Herzen UniversityRussia 70 works
  9. 9 National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 69 works
  10. 10 Ural Federal UniversityRussia 68 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Innovations and Challenges?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Innovations and Challenges include James J. Heckman.

  1. 1 James J. Heckman United States 122k 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 Innovations and Challenges?

The most cited paper in Educational Innovations and Challenges is "Transition to Online Education in Schools during a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in Georgia" (Giorgi Basilaia, D. K. Kvavadze, 2020), with 1,608 citations. Next come "The Third Mission of the university: A systematic literature review on potentials and constraints" (886) and "Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education" (732).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Transition to Online Education in Schools during a SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic in Georgia Giorgi Basilaia, D. K. Kvavadze · Pedagogical Research Open access 10 Apr 2020 1,608
2 The Third Mission of the university: A systematic literature review on potentials and constraints Lorenzo Compagnucci, Francesca Spigarelli · Technological Forecasting and Social Change ReviewOpen access 12 Sep 2020 886
3 Creativity, Critical Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration: Assessment, Certification, and Promotion of 21st Century Skills for the Future of Work and Education Branden Thornhill-Miller, Anaëlle Camarda, Maxence Mercier et al. · Journal of Intelligence Open access 15 Mar 2023 732
4 Virtual Technologies Trends in Education Carlos Efrén Mora Luis, Jorge Martín‐Gutiérrez, Beatriz Añorbe Díaz et al. · Eurasia Journal of Mathematics Science and Technology Education Open access 20 Dec 2016 728
5 Digital Transformation in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Literature Review Lina María Castro Benavides, Johnny Alexander Tamayo Arias, Martín Arango Serna et al. · Sensors ReviewOpen access 9 Jun 2020 696
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational Innovations and Challenges research done?

The largest centres of Educational Innovations and Challenges research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Surgut, Maykop and Lipetsk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 1.5k works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 402 works
  3. 3 Saint PetersburgRussia 318 works
  4. 4 TashkentUzbekistan 198 works
  5. 5 Kazan’Russia 169 works
  6. 6 KharkivUkraine 166 works
  7. 7 YekaterinburgRussia 153 works
  8. 8 AlmatyKazakhstan 141 works
  9. 9 NovosibirskRussia 132 works
  10. 10 Rostov-on-DonRussia 128 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SurgutRU · 23.8 works84×
  2. MaykopRU · 27.5 works79×
  3. LipetskRU · 35.4 works77×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Educational Innovations and Challenges than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Educational Innovations and Challenges?

Among universities, judged by research, Weatherford College, Moscow State University and University of Johannesburg 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%60%mean 16.92%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Johann…Financial UniversityWeatherford CollegeMoscow State Univers…
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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
1Weatherford CollegeUnited States 56.58.2%9.2×115 +47.0%
2Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 55.57.4%17.2×43 +19.2%
3University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 55.548.9%1.4×8 +451.2%
4Financial UniversityRussia 54.29.8%55.2×115 +8.5%
5National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia 53.726.2%18.1×69 -25.7%
6Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical UniversityKazakhstan 52.311.0%90.5×48 +57.2%
7Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical UniversityUkraine 51.416.5%92.1×33 +89.3%
8Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine 51.29.1%74.6×61 +46.0%
9Moscow State University of Psychology & EducationRussia 50.228.7%76.0×33 -24.8%
10Pedagogical UniversityMozambique 50.03.4%105.3×98 -5.6%

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 Educational Innovations and Challenges, country by country

Is Educational Innovations and Challenges research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 18% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Innovations and Challenges.

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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 Innovations and Challenges as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.045% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Educational Innovations and Challenges0.036% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational Innovations and Challenges 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 Innovations and Challenges10.3% in 202520102020

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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