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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. 10.0% 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
In the world top 10%: 3.2k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +52%
Largest producer: United States

Environmental Education and Sustainability

Which countries lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 1.2k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.4k works
2 China 1.2k works
3 Indonesia 776 works
4 Türkiye 611 works
5 United Kingdom 575 works
6 India 544 works
7 Germany 485 works
8 Spain 393 works
9 Malaysia 341 works
10 Australia 333 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 States1,408 · 21.2%China1,169 · 17.6%Indonesia776 · 11.7%Türkiye611 · 9.2%6 others listed2,671 · 40.3%

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

Which institutions lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Environmental Education and Sustainability research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and The University of Queensland.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 60 works
2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 44 works
3 The University of QueenslandAustralia 34 works
4 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 33 works
5 University of GroningenNetherlands 32 works
6 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 30 works
7 Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia 30 works
8 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
9 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 28 works
10 Monash UniversityAustralia 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Education and Sustainability?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Environmental Education and Sustainability include Icek Ajzen, Lídia Morawska and Christian M. Ringle.

1 Icek Ajzen United States 267k citations
2 Lídia Morawska Australia 244k citations
3 Christian M. Ringle Germany 215k citations
4 Michael D Brauer Canada 187k citations
5 F. Stuart Chapin United States 185k 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 Education and Sustainability?

The most cited paper in Environmental Education and Sustainability is "Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior?" (Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman, 2002), with 8,791 citations. Next come "A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places." (5,740) and "New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale" (5,678).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Mind the Gap: Why do people act environmentally and what are the barriers to pro-environmental behavior? Anja Kollmuss, Julian Agyeman · Environmental Education Research Open access	Aug 2002	8,791
2	A focus theory of normative conduct: Recycling the concept of norms to reduce littering in public places. Robert B. Cialdini, Raymond R. Reno, Carl A. Kallgren · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	Jun 1990	5,740
3	New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale Riley E. Dunlap, Kent D. Van Liere, Angela G. Mertig et al. · Journal of Social Issues	2000	5,678
4	Encouraging pro-environmental behaviour: An integrative review and research agenda Linda Steg, Charles A. J. Vlek · Journal of Environmental Psychology Open access	20 Nov 2008	5,063
5	Twenty years after Hines, Hungerford, and Tomera: A new meta-analysis of psycho-social determinants of pro-environmental behaviour Sebastian Bamberg, Guido Möser · Journal of Environmental Psychology Review	30 Dec 2006	4,093

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Where is Environmental Education and Sustainability research done?

The largest centres of Environmental Education and Sustainability research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Ankara (Türkiye) and Bandung (Indonesia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 200 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 123 works
3 AnkaraTürkiye 101 works
4 BandungIndonesia 96 works
5 JakartaIndonesia 91 works
6 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 90 works
7 IstanbulTürkiye 88 works
8 SeoulSouth Korea 73 works
9 NanjingChina 71 works
10 ShanghaiChina 71 works

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Where is the best place to study Environmental Education and Sustainability?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Groningen, University of Business and Technology and Sunway 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of GroningenNetherlands	71.5	17.8%	4.4×	32	+25.2%
2	University of Business and TechnologySaudi Arabia	69.5	39.1%	8.2×	8	+203.9%
3	Sunway UniversityMalaysia	65.3	27.5%	11.5×	11	+186.3%
4	The University of QueenslandAustralia	64.6	20.0%	3.4×	34	+5.9%
5	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	58.2	23.4%	2.0×	25	+197.2%
6	King Faisal UniversitySaudi Arabia	58.2	24.4%	4.9×	13	+876.0%
7	Jiangsu UniversityChina	57.9	30.1%	1.6×	13	+195.6%
8	Taylor's UniversityMalaysia	57.5	25.8%	10.1×	9	+221.4%
9	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	57.3	25.8%	1.7×	15	+10.5%
10	University of Economics Ho Chi Minh CityVietnam	57.0	33.1%	12.9×	10	-
11	Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands	56.8	9.7%	6.5×	25	+58.7%
12	University of BathUnited Kingdom	54.0	20.9%	6.7×	17	+38.8%
13	National University of MalaysiaMalaysia	53.6	14.9%	4.3×	30	+115.8%
14	National Economics UniversityVietnam	53.6	22.3%	21.0×	12	+181.5%
15	University of HelsinkiFinland	53.3	12.3%	3.6×	26	+47.6%
16	University of GothenburgSweden	53.2	13.3%	4.9×	24	+13.8%
17	University of AlicanteSpain	53.1	24.2%	4.9×	15	+47.4%
18	Griffith UniversityAustralia	52.5	27.8%	4.2×	18	-7.6%
19	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	52.3	10.5%	1.7×	29	+129.8%
20	Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal	52.0	26.8%	3.1×	10	+58.9%
21	Örebro UniversitySweden	52.0	28.9%	7.8×	8	+55.5%
22	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	51.5	18.0%	2.7×	20	+57.0%
23	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	51.4	22.0%	2.2×	14	+56.8%
24	University of BernSwitzerland	51.3	13.8%	2.9×	17	+26.2%
25	Universiti Putra MalaysiaMalaysia	50.4	7.1%	5.4×	30	+49.7%
26	Monash UniversityAustralia	50.3	10.9%	2.7×	27	+41.7%
27	University of KasselGermany	50.2	23.4%	7.7×	13	+6.7%
28	Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia	50.0	1.7%	5.7×	60	+69.1%
29	Universiti Sains MalaysiaMalaysia	50.0	9.5%	3.8×	26	+69.2%
30	Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyNorway	49.6	10.7%	3.4×	20	+45.4%
31	Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	49.4	22.6%	3.2×	9	+280.0%
32	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	49.2	15.9%	1.2×	18	+29.1%
33	Aarhus UniversityDenmark	48.7	12.6%	2.1×	19	+32.4%
34	Beijing Institute of TechnologyChina	48.2	21.5%	0.9×	11	+26.0%
35	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	47.8	9.7%	3.2×	26	+141.3%
36	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	47.7	14.3%	1.9×	22	+17.5%
37	Leipzig UniversityGermany	47.5	20.9%	2.6×	10	+145.4%
38	University of SurreyUnited Kingdom	47.4	17.7%	3.8×	10	+50.9%
39	Kyung Hee UniversitySouth Korea	47.4	25.5%	1.9×	8	+48.6%
40	University of ExeterUnited Kingdom	47.3	11.0%	3.1×	14	+20.1%
41	Vytautas Magnus UniversityLithuania	46.2	17.2%	10.2×	9	+38.9%
42	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	45.2	4.3%	4.2×	33	+65.8%
43	Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom	45.0	33.1%	1.9×	9	-29.4%
44	University of South AfricaSouth Africa	44.4	5.5%	6.1×	28	+20.8%
45	Karlstad UniversitySweden	44.3	10.7%	16.4×	10	+34.3%
46	RMIT UniversityAustralia	43.1	16.9%	3.5×	14	+0.7%
47	University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina	39.9	30.0%	0.7×	9	-28.9%
48	Universiti Malaysia KelantanMalaysia	39.0	7.9%	13.3×	13	+194.3%
49	Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden	36.1	11.9%	5.9×	10	-0.0%
50	University of Hong KongChina	34.4	7.8%	1.1×	11	+18.1%
51	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	33.2	17.7%	1.2×	10	-0.1%
52	Leuphana University of LüneburgGermany	30.4	10.4%	12.3×	10	-44.6%
53	Western Norway University of Applied SciencesNorway	30.2	6.9%	12.7×	9	+13.5%
54	Rhodes UniversitySouth Africa	27.3	0.7%	10.9×	10	+33.3%
55	National University of SingaporeSingapore	22.8	9.4%	0.7×	8	-3.4%

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 Environmental Education and Sustainability, country by country

Is Environmental Education and Sustainability research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 52% higher than in 2018-2021, 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.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Environmental Education and Sustainability as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.051% in 2024.

Fractional works of Environmental Education and Sustainability 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.

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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Which countries lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Environmental Education and Sustainability research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Environmental Education and Sustainability?

What are the most cited papers in Environmental Education and Sustainability?

Where is Environmental Education and Sustainability research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Environmental Education and Sustainability?

Is Environmental Education and Sustainability research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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