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Environmental and sustainability education

Environmental and sustainability education is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 4.1k research works in it since 1969. 9.9% 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 environmental education, sustainability, ecological economics, and social responsibility. It explores issues such as climate change, ecosystem management, sustainable development, community engagement, and biodiversity conservation. The papers also discuss the challenges posed by globalization and the importance of integrating environmental education into various fields.

  • Environmental Education
  • Sustainability
  • Ecological Economics
  • Social Responsibility
  • Climate Change
  • Ecosystem Management
  • Sustainable Development
  • Community Engagement
  • Biodiversity Conservation
  • Globalization
Research works
4.1k
fractional, since 1969
In the world top 10%
408
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Colombia
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Environmental and sustainability education

Which countries lead Environmental and sustainability education research?

By volume, Colombia and Mexico publish the most (256 and 255 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Colombia 256 works
  2. 2 Mexico 255 works
  3. 3 Spain 244 works
  4. 4 Peru 127 works
  5. 5 Ecuador 96 works
  6. 6 Brazil 82 works
  7. 7 Argentina 73 works
  8. 8 Chile 47 works
  9. 9 Venezuela 41 works
  10. 10 Cuba 37 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.

Colombia: 20.4%Mexico: 20.3%Spain: 19.4%Peru: 10.1%6 others listed: 29.8%20%largest
Colombia256 · 20.4%Mexico255 · 20.3%Spain244 · 19.4%Peru127 · 10.1%6 others listed376 · 29.8%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental and sustainability education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Popular University of Cesar publishes the most Environmental and sustainability education research, followed by Universidad César Vallejo and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Popular University of CesarColombia 62 works
  2. 2 Universidad César VallejoPeru 36 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 24 works
  4. 4 Universidad VeracruzanaMexico 22 works
  5. 5 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 20 works
  6. 6 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 18 works
  7. 7 National Pedagogic UniversityMexico 17 works
  8. 8 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 15 works
  9. 9 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 14 works
  10. 10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental and sustainability education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental and sustainability education include Josep Peñuelas and Jeffrey David Sachs.

  1. 1 Josep Peñuelas Spain 160k citations
  2. 2 Jeffrey David Sachs United States 84k 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 Environmental and sustainability education?

The most cited paper in Environmental and sustainability education is "Hernández Sampieri, Roberto; Fernández Collado, Carlos; Baptista Lucio, Pilar. Metodología de la investigación, 5a ed., México: Mc Graw Hill, 2010" (Forero Bulla, Clara María, 2010), with 509 citations. Next come "Hacia un enfoque más crítico del trabajo de laboratorio" (220) and "Analysis of the concept of Meaningful Learning in light of the Ausubel's Theory" (194).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Hernández Sampieri, Roberto; Fernández Collado, Carlos; Baptista Lucio, Pilar. Metodología de la investigación, 5a ed., México: Mc Graw Hill, 2010 Forero Bulla, Clara María · Revista Docencia Universitaria Open access 2010 509
2 Hacia un enfoque más crítico del trabajo de laboratorio Derek Hodson · Enseñanza de las Ciencias Revista de investigación y experiencias didácticas Open access 13 Jan 1994 220
3 Analysis of the concept of Meaningful Learning in light of the Ausubel's Theory Glenda Agra, Nilton Soares Formiga, Patrícia Simplício de Oliveira et al. · Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Open access Feb 2019 194
4 La sustentabilidad o sostenibilidad: un concepto poderoso para la humanidad Plinio Zarta Ávila · Tabula rasa Open access 2018 178
5 Degrowth Serge Latouche · Journal of Cleaner Production 11 Mar 2010 168
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Environmental and sustainability education research done?

The largest centres of Environmental and sustainability education research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), Valledupar (Colombia) and Trujillo (Peru). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Valledupar, Trujillo and Panama City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 73 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 71 works
  3. 3 ValleduparColombia 62 works
  4. 4 TrujilloPeru 44 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 41 works
  6. 6 LimaPeru 40 works
  7. 7 São PauloBrazil 33 works
  8. 8 Panama CityPanama 29 works
  9. 9 Buenos AiresArgentina 27 works
  10. 10 XalapaMexico 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ValleduparCO · 62.2 works1575×
  2. TrujilloPE · 43.7 works70×
  3. Panama CityPA · 29.2 works64×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Environmental and sustainability education than the world average.

See Environmental and sustainability education on the map

Where is the best place to study Environmental and sustainability education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad César Vallejo, Universidad de Granada and Universitat de València 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 16.99%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad de GranadaUniversidad César Va…Universitat de Valèn…Popular University o…
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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
1Universidad César VallejoPeru 66.829.9%106.2×36 +432.5%
2Universidad de GranadaSpain 58.637.4%12.7×9 +9.5%
3Universitat de ValènciaSpain 53.718.7%22.1×15 +44.3%
4Popular University of CesarColombia 51.48.4%1802.2×62 +3315.0%
5University of the AmazonColombia 43.419.3%345.2×11 +222.4%
6National Pedagogic UniversityMexico 36.212.9%195.2×17 +13.8%
7Universidad VeracruzanaMexico 35.89.9%89.3×22 +69.8%
8Universidad de SevillaSpain 35.613.2%12.9×9 +1.3%
9Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaSpain 33.713.8%25.2×10 -20.1%
10Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 32.06.4%15.8×20 +7.5%

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 Environmental and sustainability education, country by country

Is Environmental and sustainability education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental and sustainability education.

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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 Environmental and sustainability education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0046% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Environmental and sustainability education0.0071% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Environmental and sustainability education 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%Environmental and sustainability education9.8% 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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