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Environmental Education and Sustainability

Environmental Education and Sustainability is a research topic within Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1950. 43.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the factors influencing pro-environmental behavior, including environmental attitudes, social norms, energy conservation, the theory of planned behavior, environmental education, sustainable behavior, the norm activation model, household energy use, and value orientations.

  • Pro-environmental Behavior
  • Environmental Attitudes
  • Social Norms
  • Energy Conservation
  • Theory of Planned Behavior
  • Environmental Education
  • Sustainable Behavior
  • Norm Activation Model
  • Household Energy Use
  • Value Orientations
Research works
32k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
14k
per year above
Top-10% rate
43.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+74%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.3k and 979 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 United States 1.3k works
  2. 2 China 979 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 597 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 533 works
  5. 5 United Kingdom 519 works
  6. 6 Germany 444 works
  7. 7 India 435 works
  8. 8 Spain 358 works
  9. 9 Australia 303 works
  10. 10 Malaysia 294 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: 22.0%China: 17.1%Indonesia: 10.4%Türkiye: 9.3%6 others listed: 41.1%22%largest
United States1,259 · 22.0%China979 · 17.1%Indonesia597 · 10.4%Türkiye533 · 9.3%6 others listed2,352 · 41.1%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Environmental Education and Sustainability research, followed by The University of Queensland and Universiti Teknologi MARA.

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Education and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Education and Sustainability include Benjamin K. Sovacool.

  1. 1 Benjamin K. Sovacool Denmark 2.9k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

Where is Environmental Education and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Education and Sustainability research in 2022–2025 are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Ankara (Türkiye) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 184 works
  2. 2 London United Kingdom 112 works
  3. 3 Ankara Türkiye 91 works
  4. 4 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 80 works
  5. 5 Bandung Indonesia 76 works
  6. 6 Istanbul Türkiye 73 works
  7. 7 Jakarta Indonesia 69 works
  8. 8 Nanjing China 66 works
  9. 9 Melbourne Australia 65 works
  10. 10 Shanghai China 63 works
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Where is the best place to study Environmental Education and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, Karlstad University, The University of Queensland and Wageningen University & Research 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%50%100%mean 62.17%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Karlstad University: 10, 74.7%The University of Queensland: 33, 65.5%Wageningen University & Research: 23, 61.6%Sunway University: 10, 57.0%University of Groningen: 28, 58.0%Taylor's University: 8, 67.7%University of Bern: 15, 61.7%University of Kassel: 12, 54.2%Education University of Hong Kong: 9, 60.9%University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City: 8, 60.4%Karlstad UniversityThe University of Qu…Wageningen Universit…Sunway University
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Karlstad UniversitySweden 71.574.7%16.0×10 +109.6%
2 The University of QueenslandAustralia 65.465.5%3.9×33 +100.6%
3 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 64.461.6%6.2×23 +57.7%
4 Sunway UniversityMalaysia 63.757.0%9.8×10
5 University of GroningenNetherlands 62.258.0%5.6×28 +47.1%
6 Taylor's UniversityMalaysia 61.567.7%9.1×8
7 University of BernSwitzerland 61.261.7%3.6×15 +437.1%
8 University of KasselGermany 60.254.2%7.1×12 +331.7%
9 Education University of Hong KongHong Kong 60.260.9%6.0×9 +186.1%
10 University of Economics Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam 59.060.4%10.6×8

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Environmental Education and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 74% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Environmental Education and Sustainability.

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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.

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.