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Educational Leadership and Innovation

Educational Leadership and Innovation is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 7.7k research works in it since 1953. 10.4% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores heutagogy, a learning theory focused on self-determined learning, and its application in lifelong learning, digital leadership, and the development of 21st-century skills. It also delves into the intersection of heutagogy with pedagogy, andragogy, complexity theory, and systems biology, as well as the role of educational technology in facilitating self-directed learning.

  • Heutagogy
  • Self-determined Learning
  • Digital Leadership
  • Lifelong Learning
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Systems Biology
  • Pedagogy
  • Andragogy
  • Complexity Theory
  • Educational Technology
Research works
7.7k
fractional, since 1953
In the world top 10%
800
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+237%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
28% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Leadership and Innovation

Which countries lead Educational Leadership and Innovation research?

By volume, Indonesia and the United States publish the most (916 and 650 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 916 works
  2. 2 United States 650 works
  3. 3 India 433 works
  4. 4 China 277 works
  5. 5 Malaysia 222 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 189 works
  7. 7 Philippines 161 works
  8. 8 South Africa 156 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 128 works
  10. 10 Australia 114 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.

Indonesia: 28.2%United States: 20.0%India: 13.3%China: 8.5%6 others listed: 29.9%28%largest
Indonesia916 · 28.2%United States650 · 20.0%India433 · 13.3%China277 · 8.5%6 others listed970 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Leadership and Innovation research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Johannesburg publishes the most Educational Leadership and Innovation research, followed by University of South Africa and Binus University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 33 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 29 works
  3. 3 Binus UniversityIndonesia 27 works
  4. 4 State University of MalangIndonesia 26 works
  5. 5 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 26 works
  6. 6 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 24 works
  7. 7 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 22 works
  8. 8 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 20 works
  9. 9 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 19 works
  10. 10 State University of PadangIndonesia 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Leadership and Innovation?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Leadership and Innovation include Jean‐Louis Vincent.

  1. 1 Jean‐Louis Vincent Belgium 262k 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 Leadership and Innovation?

The most cited paper in Educational Leadership and Innovation is "Understanding the role of digital technologies in education: A review" (Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Mohammad Asim Qadri et al., 2022), with 2,598 citations. Next come "NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition" (1,252) and "Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education." (962).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Understanding the role of digital technologies in education: A review Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid, Mohammad Asim Qadri et al. · Sustainable Operations and Computers Open access 2022 2,598
2 NMC Horizon Report: 2017 Higher Education Edition S. Adams Becker, Malcolm Brown, Eden Dahlstrom et al. 2017 1,252
3 Assessment for Excellence: The Philosophy and Practice of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education. Marcia Mentkowski, Alexander W. Astin · The Journal of Higher Education Nov 1992 962
4 Heutagogy and lifelong learning: A review of heutagogical practice and self-determined learning Lisa Marie Blaschke · The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Open access 31 Jan 2012 883
5 Education 4.0 Made Simple: Ideas For Teaching Anealka Aziz Hussin · International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies Open access 31 Jul 2018 742
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Where is Educational Leadership and Innovation research done?

The largest centres of Educational Leadership and Innovation research in 2022-now are Jakarta (Indonesia), Bandung (Indonesia), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) and Surabaya (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 JakartaIndonesia 135 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 84 works
  3. 3 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 69 works
  4. 4 SurabayaIndonesia 64 works
  5. 5 YogyakartaIndonesia 61 works
  6. 6 MakassarIndonesia 58 works
  7. 7 MalangIndonesia 51 works
  8. 8 LondonUnited Kingdom 51 works
  9. 9 JohannesburgSouth Africa 41 works
  10. 10 PretoriaSouth Africa 41 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational Leadership and Innovation?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Johannesburg, National University of Malaysia and University of Malaya 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%mean 11.97%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MalayaUniversity of Johann…National University …University of South …
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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
1University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 94.815.6%11.6×33 +1298.9%
2National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 78.210.1%8.0×24 +158.4%
3University of MalayaMalaysia 74.317.6%5.1×13 +450.8%
4University of South AfricaSouth Africa 74.19.5%14.4×29 +534.4%
5Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia 73.515.9%4.7×14 +210.0%
6University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth Africa 60.015.1%5.2×9 -
7University of Technology MalaysiaMalaysia 57.411.2%5.8×12 +107.2%
8Binus UniversityIndonesia 57.24.8%10.5×27 +618.9%
9University of BrawijayaIndonesia 56.315.8%2.9×12 -
10Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 53.64.1%9.8×26 +1267.0%

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 Leadership and Innovation, country by country

Is Educational Leadership and Innovation research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 237% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Leadership and Innovation.

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

still counting0.020%0.040%Educational Leadership and Innovation0.033% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational Leadership and Innovation 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 Leadership and Innovation10.7% 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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