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Educational Practices and Policies

Educational Practices and Policies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 17k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to education, social pedagogy, organizational behavior, and societal challenges in Europe. It includes discussions on teaching practices, professional identity, equal opportunity, school management, inclusive education, and youth development. The papers also address the impact of societal changes on education and the role of educators in addressing these challenges.

  • Education
  • Social Pedagogy
  • Professional Identity
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Equal Opportunity
  • Teaching Practices
  • School Management
  • Inclusive Education
  • Youth Development
  • Societal Challenges
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Practices and Policies

Which countries lead Educational Practices and Policies research?

By volume, Brazil and Spain publish the most (635 and 552 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 635 works
  2. 2 Spain 552 works
  3. 3 France 355 works
  4. 4 Portugal 192 works
  5. 5 Mexico 169 works
  6. 6 Chile 146 works
  7. 7 Colombia 121 works
  8. 8 United States 121 works
  9. 9 Canada 93 works
  10. 10 Argentina 87 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: 25.7%Spain: 22.3%France: 14.3%Portugal: 7.8%6 others listed: 29.9%26%largest
Brazil635 · 25.7%Spain552 · 22.3%France355 · 14.3%Portugal192 · 7.8%6 others listed738 · 29.9%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Practices and Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Educational Practices and Policies research, followed by University of the Basque Country and Universidad de Granada.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 64 works
  2. 2 University of the Basque CountrySpain 31 works
  3. 3 Universidad de GranadaSpain 28 works
  4. 4 Ação EducativaBrazil 28 works
  5. 5 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 25 works
  6. 6 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 25 works
  7. 7 University of LisbonPortugal 23 works
  8. 8 Universidad de MurciaSpain 22 works
  9. 9 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 22 works
  10. 10 Universidade do PortoPortugal 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Practices and Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Practices and Policies include Pierre Bourdıeu, Ian J. Deary and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Practices and Policies?

The most cited paper in Educational Practices and Policies is "Reconsidering research on teachers’ professional identity" (Douwe Beijaard, Paulien C. Meijer, Nico Verloop, 2004), with 3,490 citations. Next come "Reflection in teacher education: Towards definition and implementation" (2,314) and "PROFESSORES: IMAGENS DO FUTURO PRESENTE" (1,306).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Reconsidering research on teachers’ professional identity Douwe Beijaard, Paulien C. Meijer, Nico Verloop · Teaching and Teacher Education Open access Feb 2004 3,490
2 Reflection in teacher education: Towards definition and implementation Neville Hatton, David Smith · Teaching and Teacher Education 1995 2,314
3 PROFESSORES: IMAGENS DO FUTURO PRESENTE Maitê Alves Bezerra · Administração Ensino e Pesquisa Open access 30 Jun 2014 1,306
4 The Sociological Analysis of Professionalism Julia Evetts · International Sociology Jun 2003 1,068
5 Developing fundamental principles for teacher education programs and practices Fred A. J. Korthagen, John Loughran, Tom Russell · Teaching and Teacher Education Open access Jun 2006 1,044
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational Practices and Policies research done?

The largest centres of Educational Practices and Policies research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Madrid (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Mons.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 108 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 79 works
  3. 3 LisbonPortugal 76 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 70 works
  5. 5 SantiagoChile 65 works
  6. 6 Mexico CityMexico 59 works
  7. 7 BogotáColombia 57 works
  8. 8 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 56 works
  9. 9 BarcelonaSpain 36 works
  10. 10 Buenos AiresArgentina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MonsBE · 20.6 works34×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Educational Practices and Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of the Basque Country, Universidad de Granada and Universitat de Barcelona 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 19.32%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de GranadaUniversitat de Barce…Universidad de MálagaUniversity of the Ba…
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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 the Basque CountrySpain 75.813.2%22.8×31 +54.9%
2Universidad de GranadaSpain 75.222.9%17.7×28 -13.5%
3Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 72.422.6%11.4×25 -26.5%
4Universidad de MálagaSpain 70.819.6%21.9×19 +5.3%
5Universidad de MurciaSpain 70.018.5%25.2×22 +8.1%
6Universitat de ValènciaSpain 65.911.6%16.3×25 +12.1%
7University of LisbonPortugal 64.018.6%10.3×23 -24.0%
8Universidade do PortoPortugal 64.019.4%11.8×22 -31.1%
9University of MinhoPortugal 63.424.8%17.4×17 -51.9%
10Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 62.522.0%10.5×19 -42.3%

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 Practices and Policies, country by country

Is Educational Practices and Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Practices and Policies.

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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 Practices and Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Educational Practices and Policies0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Educational Practices and Policies 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 Practices and Policies9.9% 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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