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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. 9.8% 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%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
90% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Which countries lead Gender, Sexuality, and Education research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (4.7k and 126 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 4.7k works
  2. 2 Portugal 126 works
  3. 3 United States 121 works
  4. 4 Spain 53 works
  5. 5 Argentina 48 works
  6. 6 ?? 39 works
  7. 7 Mexico 39 works
  8. 8 France 38 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 28 works
  10. 10 Chile 25 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: 90.1%Portugal: 2.4%United States: 2.3%Spain: 1.0%6 others listed: 4.2%90%largest
Brazil4,687 · 90.1%Portugal126 · 2.4%United States121 · 2.3%Spain53 · 1.0%6 others listed217 · 4.2%

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

Which institutions lead Gender, Sexuality, and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, 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-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 153 works
  2. 2 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 129 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 126 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 121 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 119 works
  6. 6 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 116 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 108 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 84 works
  9. 9 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 84 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 79 works

Who are the leading researchers in Gender, Sexuality, and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Gender, Sexuality, and Education include Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Donna Haraway.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  3. 3 Donna Haraway United States 73k citations
  4. 4 Gilles Deleuze France 66k citations
  5. 5 Loic J. D. Wacquant United States 63k 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, Sexuality, and Education?

The most cited paper in Gender, Sexuality, and Education is "Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment" (Neide Mayumi Osada, Maria Conceição da Costa, 2008), with 1,303 citations. Next come "O corpo educado: pedagogias da sexualidade" (1,258) and "Documento para o encontro de especialistas em aspectos da discriminação racial relativos ao gênero" (1,075).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment Neide Mayumi Osada, Maria Conceição da Costa · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access Jul 2008 1,303
2 O corpo educado: pedagogias da sexualidade Marília Pinto de Carvalho · Cadernos de Pesquisa Open access Mar 2000 1,258
3 Documento para o encontro de especialistas em aspectos da discriminação racial relativos ao gênero Kimberle Williams Crenshaw · Revista Estudos Feministas Open access 2002 1,075
4 Um corpo estranho: ensaios sobre sexualidade e teoria queer José Eduardo Szwak · Educar em Revista Open access 2007 884
5 Gênero: uma categoria útil de análise histórica Joan W. Scott · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) Open access 15 Mar 2012 743
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Where is Gender, Sexuality, and Education research done?

The largest centres of Gender, Sexuality, and Education research in 2022-now 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-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 604 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 484 works
  3. 3 Belo HorizonteBrazil 199 works
  4. 4 Porto AlegreBrazil 161 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 158 works
  6. 6 FlorianópolisBrazil 151 works
  7. 7 RecifeBrazil 135 works
  8. 8 CuritibaBrazil 128 works
  9. 9 SalvadorBrazil 124 works
  10. 10 BelémBrazil 113 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuarapuavaBR · 24.5 works60×
  2. Montes ClarosBR · 27.0 works56×
  3. DouradosBR · 32.7 works53×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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 Brasil, Universidade de São Paulo and Fundação Getulio Vargas 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%10%20%30%mean 14.72%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade BrasilFundação Getulio Var…Universidade Federal…Universidade de São …
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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
1Universidade BrasilBrazil 67.525.5%30.8×15 +63.6%
2Universidade de São PauloBrazil 65.212.6%16.7×153 +1.1%
3Fundação Getulio VargasBrazil 62.622.6%33.8×17 +16.1%
4Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 62.514.3%32.3×108 0.0%
5Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 56.711.4%35.6×126 -28.9%
6Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil 56.611.5%34.2×60 +9.8%
7Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 56.410.3%61.4×129 -15.2%
8Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 54.911.0%34.8×121 -15.3%
9Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil 53.918.6%25.3×17 +31.9%
10Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 51.69.4%40.0×119 -11.9%

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, Sexuality, and Education, country by country

Is Gender, Sexuality, and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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, Sexuality, and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Gender, Sexuality, and Education0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Gender, Sexuality, and 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%Gender, Sexuality, and Education9.5% in 2025200020102020

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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