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Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Gender, Sexuality, and Education is a research topic within Gender Studies. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1954. 4.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores gender studies, sexuality, feminism, queer theory, and social norms in the context of Brazil. It covers a wide range of topics including the construction of masculinity, discourse analysis, education, and the impact of feminist movements on Brazilian society.

  • Gender
  • Sexuality
  • Feminism
  • Identity
  • Queer Theory
  • Social Norms
  • Education
  • Masculinity
  • Discourse Analysis
  • Brazil
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
719
per year above
Top-10% rate
4.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+80%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Gender, Sexuality, and Education research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (4.2k and 110 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Brazil 4.2k works
  2. 2 Portugal 110 works
  3. 3 United States 106 works
  4. 4 Spain 48 works
  5. 5 Argentina 40 works
  6. 6 France 36 works
  7. 7 ?? 35 works
  8. 8 Mexico 33 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 25 works
  10. 10 Chile 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.

Brazil: 90.2%Portugal: 2.4%United States: 2.3%Spain: 1.0%6 others listed: 4.1%90%largest
Brazil4,204 · 90.2%Portugal110 · 2.4%United States106 · 2.3%Spain48 · 1.0%6 others listed190 · 4.1%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Sexuality, and Education research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Gender, Sexuality, and Education research, followed by Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 117 works
  2. 2 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 117 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 115 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 114 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 106 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 105 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 100 works
  8. 8 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 77 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 74 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 71 works

Where is Gender, Sexuality, and Education research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Sexuality, and Education research in 2022–2025 are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belo Horizonte (Brazil) and Porto Alegre (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guarapuava, Montes Claros and Dourados.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 São Paulo Brazil 541 works
  2. 2 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 432 works
  3. 3 Belo Horizonte Brazil 182 works
  4. 4 Porto Alegre Brazil 147 works
  5. 5 Brasília Brazil 139 works
  6. 6 Florianópolis Brazil 139 works
  7. 7 Recife Brazil 119 works
  8. 8 Curitiba Brazil 116 works
  9. 9 Salvador Brazil 114 works
  10. 10 Belém Brazil 101 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuarapuavaBR · 21.6 works58×
  2. Montes ClarosBR · 24.3 works55×
  3. DouradosBR · 30.8 works54×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Gender, Sexuality, and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Gender, Sexuality, and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Universidade Federal de Viçosa and Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul 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%5%10%mean 5.69%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal de São Paulo: 29, 8.4%Universidade Federal de Viçosa: 17, 8.7%Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do Sul: 8, 9.5%Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: 117, 3.8%Universidade de Brasília: 77, 4.4%Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP): 63, 4.6%Universidade Federal de São Carlos: 54, 6.6%Universidade Federal de Pelotas: 42, 4.2%Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro: 114, 3.0%Universidade de São Paulo: 117, 3.7%Universidade Estadua…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…Universidade do Esta…
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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 Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 72.28.4%15.4×29 +136.2%
2 Universidade Federal de ViçosaBrazil 70.18.7%14.7×17 +152.4%
3 Universidade Estadual do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 69.19.5%54.6×8 +410.3%
4 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 68.33.8%56.1×117 +141.8%
5 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 67.74.4%30.0×77 +144.8%
6 Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)Brazil 67.24.6%18.2×63 +144.7%
7 Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 66.56.6%30.5×54 +60.2%
8 Universidade Federal de PelotasBrazil 64.14.2%36.7×42 +170.9%
9 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 63.73.0%32.9×114 +102.5%
10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 63.43.7%14.8×117 +48.3%

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 Gender, Sexuality, and Education research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 80% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Gender, Sexuality, and 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.

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.