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Educational Strategies and Epistemologies

Educational Strategies and Epistemologies is a research topic within Developmental and Educational Psychology. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the development, dimensions, and influences of personal epistemological beliefs, metacognition, and information literacy in various educational contexts. It investigates topics such as source evaluation, cognitive engagement, multiple text comprehension, and the role of epistemic beliefs in self-regulated learning. The research contributes to understanding how individuals form and adapt their beliefs about knowledge and knowing, particularly in the context of online research and learning.

  • Epistemological Beliefs
  • Metacognition
  • Information Literacy
  • Online Research
  • Cognitive Engagement
  • Source Evaluation
  • Multiple Text Comprehension
  • Educational Psychology
  • Self-Regulated Learning
  • Critical Thinking
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
39% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Educational Strategies and Epistemologies

Which countries lead Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research?

By volume, the United States and Türkiye publish the most (849 and 275 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 849 works
  2. 2 Türkiye 275 works
  3. 3 Germany 260 works
  4. 4 China 230 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 156 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 110 works
  7. 7 Canada 89 works
  8. 8 Spain 75 works
  9. 9 Norway 68 works
  10. 10 Australia 66 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.

United States: 39.0%Türkiye: 12.6%Germany: 11.9%China: 10.6%6 others listed: 25.9%39%largest
United States849 · 39.0%Türkiye275 · 12.6%Germany260 · 11.9%China230 · 10.6%6 others listed564 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Pennsylvania State University publishes the most Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research, followed by University of Oslo and Beijing Normal University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 19 works
  2. 2 University of OsloNorway 18 works
  3. 3 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 16 works
  4. 4 State University of MalangIndonesia 16 works
  5. 5 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 15 works
  6. 6 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 15 works
  7. 7 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 14 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 University of GeorgiaUnited States 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Educational Strategies and Epistemologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Educational Strategies and Epistemologies include Andrew David Oxman, Michael Tomasello and Herbert W. Marsh.

  1. 1 Andrew David Oxman Norway 168k citations
  2. 2 Michael Tomasello Germany 135k citations
  3. 3 Herbert W. Marsh Australia 128k 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 Strategies and Epistemologies?

The most cited paper in Educational Strategies and Epistemologies is "Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct" (M. Frank Pajares, 1992), with 8,465 citations. Next come "Accommodation of a scientific conception: Toward a theory of conceptual change" (5,128) and "Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects" (3,727).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Teachers’ Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning Up a Messy Construct M. Frank Pajares · Review of Educational Research Open access Sep 1992 8,465
2 Accommodation of a scientific conception: Toward a theory of conceptual change George J. Posner, Kenneth A. Strike, Peter W. Hewson et al. · Science Education Apr 1982 5,128
3 Investigating Self-Regulation and Motivation: Historical Background, Methodological Developments, and Future Prospects Barry J. Zimmerman · American Educational Research Journal Mar 2008 3,727
4 The Psychological Foundations of Culture John Tooby, Leda Cosmides Book chapter 6 Aug 1992 3,509
5 Feedback and Self-Regulated Learning: A Theoretical Synthesis Deborah L. Butler, Philip H. Winne · Review of Educational Research Sep 1995 3,151
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Where is Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research done?

The largest centres of Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Istanbul (Türkiye), Beijing (China) and Oslo (Norway).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 49 works
  2. 2 IstanbulTürkiye 39 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 35 works
  4. 4 OsloNorway 29 works
  5. 5 SingaporeSingapore 24 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 22 works
  7. 7 New YorkUnited States 22 works
  8. 8 TaipeiTaiwan 21 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 21 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 20 works
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Where is the best place to study Educational Strategies and Epistemologies?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, University of Oslo and Beijing Normal University 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%20%40%mean 19.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Education University…University of GeorgiaBeijing Normal Unive…University of Oslo
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 80.529.6%28.0×12 +116.5%
2University of OsloNorway 70.415.2%9.3×18 -20.9%
3Beijing Normal UniversityChina 69.216.6%6.9×16 +82.5%
4University of GeorgiaUnited States 68.224.3%9.3×12 +32.2%
5Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 66.510.9%6.4×15 +68.7%
6University of MichiganUnited States 63.816.1%2.8×12 +19.2%
7University of IoanninaGreece 61.519.5%23.4×12 +232.5%
8University of Hong KongChina 61.021.4%3.8×11 +15.3%
9National Taiwan Normal UniversityTaiwan 56.721.9%33.9×11 -11.1%
10University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 56.320.7%6.0×10 -28.9%

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 Strategies and Epistemologies, country by country

Is Educational Strategies and Epistemologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Educational Strategies and Epistemologies.

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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 Strategies and Epistemologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Educational Strategies and Epistemologies 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 Strategies and Epistemologies10.2% 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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