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Gender, Education, and Development Issues

Gender, Education, and Development Issues is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 2.9k 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 covers a wide range of topics related to human development, global inequality, and sustainable development. It includes discussions on climate change, education, poverty reduction, gender policy, renewable energy, and agriculture economics. The papers also address issues such as global gender gap, social justice, and the impact of globalization on unemployment and poverty in Africa.

  • Human Development Report
  • Global Gender Gap
  • Climate Change
  • Education
  • Poverty Reduction
  • Sustainable Development
  • Agriculture Economics
  • Gender Policy
  • Renewable Energy
  • Social Justice
Research works
2.9k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
288
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+35%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Nigeria
26% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender, Education, and Development Issues

Which countries lead Gender, Education, and Development Issues research?

By volume, Nigeria and Indonesia publish the most (170 and 132 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Nigeria 170 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 132 works
  3. 3 India 112 works
  4. 4 United States 61 works
  5. 5 Pakistan 51 works
  6. 6 Kenya 34 works
  7. 7 Iran 26 works
  8. 8 Egypt 23 works
  9. 9 Philippines 23 works
  10. 10 Iraq 22 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.

Nigeria: 25.9%Indonesia: 20.1%India: 17.2%United States: 9.3%6 others listed: 27.5%26%largest
Nigeria170 · 25.9%Indonesia132 · 20.1%India112 · 17.2%United States61 · 9.3%6 others listed180 · 27.5%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Education, and Development Issues research?

By volume in 2022-now, Tribhuvan University publishes the most Gender, Education, and Development Issues research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Rivers State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 15 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 8 works
  3. 3 Rivers State UniversityNigeria 8 works
  4. 4 Federal College of Education, KanoNigeria 6 works
  5. 5 Mount Kenya UniversityKenya 6 works
  6. 6 Kenyatta UniversityKenya 6 works
  7. 7 G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 6 works
  8. 8 The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-EkitiNigeria 6 works
  9. 9 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 5 works
  10. 10 University of Port HarcourtNigeria 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender, Education, and Development Issues?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender, Education, and Development Issues include Ian H. Witten.

  1. 1 Ian H. Witten New Zealand 89k 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 Gender, Education, and Development Issues?

The most cited paper in Gender, Education, and Development Issues is "Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training" (Devaki Jain, Caroline O. N. Moser, 1995), with 1,288 citations. Next come "PATRIARCHY AND GENDER INEQUALITY IN NIGERIA: THE WAY FORWARD" (276) and "Gender equality in education: Definitions and measurements" (269).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training Devaki Jain, Caroline O. N. Moser · Feminist Review 1995 1,288
2 PATRIARCHY AND GENDER INEQUALITY IN NIGERIA: THE WAY FORWARD Godiya Allanana Makama · European Scientific Journal ESJ Open access 30 Jun 2013 276
3 Gender equality in education: Definitions and measurements Ramya Subrahmanian · International Journal of Educational Development 27 Jun 2005 269
4 Gender and productivity differentials in science Katarina Prpić · Scientometrics Sep 2002 212
5 Parental Education and Child Health—Understanding the Pathways of Impact in Pakistan Monazza Aslam, Geeta Kingdon · World Development 20 Jun 2012 203
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Gender, Education, and Development Issues research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Education, and Development Issues research in 2022-now are Nairobi (Kenya), Kathmandu (Nepal), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Port Harcourt (Nigeria).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 NairobiKenya 19 works
  2. 2 KathmanduNepal 18 works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 14 works
  4. 4 Port HarcourtNigeria 13 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 12 works
  6. 6 LahorePakistan 11 works
  7. 7 MedanIndonesia 10 works
  8. 8 DhakaBangladesh 10 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 10 works
  10. 10 SurabayaIndonesia 9 works
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Where is the best place to study Gender, Education, and Development Issues?

Among universities, judged by research, Tribhuvan University and Islamic Azad University, Tehran 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.

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
1Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 100.010.3%21.8×15 +226.7%
2Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 10.08.2%5.5×8 +22.2%

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 Gender, Education, and Development Issues, country by country

Is Gender, Education, and Development Issues research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Gender, Education, and Development Issues.

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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 Gender, Education, and Development Issues as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Gender, Education, and Development Issues 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.

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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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