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Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research

Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 1.8k research works in it since 1970. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on citizenship education, qualitative research, social justice, and inclusive education in Latin America and Spain. It covers topics such as participatory health research, youth participation, teacher training, community engagement, civic competences, and ethnographic studies.

  • Citizenship Education
  • Qualitative Research
  • Social Justice
  • Participatory Health Research
  • Inclusive Education
  • Youth Participation
  • Teacher Training
  • Community Engagement
  • Civic Competences
  • Ethnographic Studies
Research works
1.8k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
185
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+36%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research

Which countries lead Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research?

By volume, Spain and Colombia publish the most (206 and 128 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 206 works
  2. 2 Colombia 128 works
  3. 3 Ecuador 93 works
  4. 4 Mexico 92 works
  5. 5 Brazil 50 works
  6. 6 Peru 38 works
  7. 7 Argentina 38 works
  8. 8 Chile 34 works
  9. 9 United States 18 works
  10. 10 ?? 15 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.

Spain: 28.9%Colombia: 17.9%Ecuador: 13.1%Mexico: 12.9%6 others listed: 27.2%29%largest
Spain206 · 28.9%Colombia128 · 17.9%Ecuador93 · 13.1%Mexico92 · 12.9%6 others listed193 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitat de València publishes the most Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research, followed by Universidad Estatal de Milagro and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 17 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 15 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 14 works
  4. 4 Universidad Estatal Península de Santa ElenaEcuador 11 works
  5. 5 Universidad de MurciaSpain 11 works
  6. 6 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 10 works
  7. 7 Universidad César VallejoPeru 9 works
  8. 8 Universidad de SevillaSpain 8 works
  9. 9 Universidad de GranadaSpain 7 works
  10. 10 Universidad de SalamancaSpain 7 works

What are the most cited papers in Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research?

The most cited paper in Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research is "La encuesta como técnica de investigación. Elaboración de cuestionarios y tratamiento estadístico de los datos (I)" (J. Casas Anguita, José Ramón Repullo Labrador, J. Donado Campos, 2003), with 316 citations. Next come "La Investigación con Relatos de Vida: Pistas y Opciones del Diseño Metodológico" (186) and "Cierre de Escuelas y Desigualdad Socioeducativa en Tiempos del Covid-19. Una Investigación Exploratoria en Clave Internacional" (107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 La encuesta como técnica de investigación. Elaboración de cuestionarios y tratamiento estadístico de los datos (I) J. Casas Anguita, José Ramón Repullo Labrador, J. Donado Campos · Atención Primaria Open access 2003 316
2 La Investigación con Relatos de Vida: Pistas y Opciones del Diseño Metodológico Marcela Cornejo, Francisca Mendoza, Rodrigo Rojas · Psykhe (Santiago) Open access May 2008 186
3 Cierre de Escuelas y Desigualdad Socioeducativa en Tiempos del Covid-19. Una Investigación Exploratoria en Clave Internacional Jorge Cáceres-Muñoz, Antonio Salvador Jiménez Hernández, Miguel Martín-Sánchez · Revista Internacional de Educación para la Justicia Social Open access 23 Jul 2020 107
4 Quin és el futur de l’aprenentatge mòbil en l’educació? Mohamed Ally, Josep Prieto-Blázquez · RUSC Universities and Knowledge Society Journal Open access 15 Jan 2014 99
5 Ectopic eruption of the maxillary first permanent molar: characteristics and occurrence in growing children. Elena Barbería-Leache, María Cruz Suarez-Clúa, Dolores Saavedra-Ontiveros · PubMed Jul 2005 97
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research done?

The largest centres of Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research in 2022-now are Bogotá (Colombia), Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Guayaquil (Ecuador). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guayaquil and Bogotá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BogotáColombia 47 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 29 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 28 works
  4. 4 GuayaquilEcuador 25 works
  5. 5 ValenciaSpain 24 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 22 works
  7. 7 BarcelonaSpain 19 works
  8. 8 MedellínColombia 18 works
  9. 9 LimaPeru 14 works
  10. 10 SantiagoChile 14 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuayaquilEC · 25.2 works60×
  2. BogotáCO · 46.5 works35×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de València, Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena 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%mean 13.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat de Valèn…Universidad Estatal …Universitat de Barce…Universidad de Murcia
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universitat de ValènciaSpain 86.922.3%44.4×17 +39.3%
2Universidad Estatal Península de Santa ElenaEcuador 51.016.3%310.7×12 -
3Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 44.512.3%18.2×10 +116.8%
4Universidad de MurciaSpain 36.89.1%50.9×11 +26.7%
5Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 33.77.4%199.6×15 -
6Universidad de SevillaSpain 31.613.3%20.7×8 +61.5%
7Universidad César VallejoPeru 27.911.0%46.9×9 +244.4%

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 Practices and Sociocultural Research, country by country

Is Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 36% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research.

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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 Sociocultural Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational Practices and Sociocultural Research 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 Sociocultural Research10.1% in 20252020

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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