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Geography and Education Methods

Geography and Education Methods is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 5.1k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of gender, identity, and place within the field of geography education. It delves into topics such as feminist geographies, social movements, critical literacy, globalization, sustainable development, cultural geography, and pedagogy. The papers also examine the concept of territoriality and its implications in understanding the relationship between individuals and their environment.

  • Feminist Geographies
  • Gender Identity
  • Geography Education
  • Social Movements
  • Critical Literacy
  • Globalization
  • Sustainable Development
  • Cultural Geography
  • Pedagogy
  • Territoriality
Research works
5.1k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
509
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geography and Education Methods

Which countries lead Geography and Education Methods research?

By volume, Spain and Brazil publish the most (320 and 204 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 320 works
  2. 2 Brazil 204 works
  3. 3 Colombia 124 works
  4. 4 Argentina 111 works
  5. 5 Mexico 105 works
  6. 6 Ecuador 57 works
  7. 7 Chile 55 works
  8. 8 United States 52 works
  9. 9 France 30 works
  10. 10 Peru 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.

Spain: 29.5%Brazil: 18.8%Colombia: 11.5%Argentina: 10.2%6 others listed: 30.0%30%largest
Spain320 · 29.5%Brazil204 · 18.8%Colombia124 · 11.5%Argentina111 · 10.2%6 others listed324 · 30.0%

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

Which institutions lead Geography and Education Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universitat de València publishes the most Geography and Education Methods research, followed by Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 25 works
  2. 2 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 20 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 18 works
  4. 4 Universidad de GranadaSpain 15 works
  5. 5 Ação EducativaBrazil 15 works
  6. 6 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 15 works
  7. 7 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 15 works
  8. 8 Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 14 works
  9. 9 Universidad de MurciaSpain 14 works
  10. 10 Universidad de Buenos AiresArgentina 12 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geography and Education Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geography and Education Methods include Jean Piaget, Charles Robert Darwin and Stephen Jay Gould.

  1. 1 Jean Piaget Switzerland 104k citations
  2. 2 Charles Robert Darwin Indonesia 87k citations
  3. 3 Stephen Jay Gould United States 79k citations
  4. 4 David Harvey United Kingdom 61k 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 Geography and Education Methods?

The most cited paper in Geography and Education Methods is "The onto-semiotic approach to research in mathematics education" (Juan Díaz Godino, Carmen Batanero, Vicenç Font, 2007), with 697 citations. Next come "Scale as relation: musical metaphors of geographical scale" (368) and "ON THE HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION OF GEOGRAPHY: AN HISTORICAL MATERIALIST MANIFESTO" (306).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The onto-semiotic approach to research in mathematics education Juan Díaz Godino, Carmen Batanero, Vicenç Font · ZDM 4 Jan 2007 697
2 Scale as relation: musical metaphors of geographical scale Richard Howitt · Area Mar 1998 368
3 ON THE HISTORY AND PRESENT CONDITION OF GEOGRAPHY: AN HISTORICAL MATERIALIST MANIFESTO David Harvey · The Professional Geographer Feb 1984 306
4 Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right? Henry Jay Becker · Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) Open access 2000 296
5 Google Earth as a (Not Just) Geography Education Tool Todd C. Patterson · Journal of Geography Open access Nov 2007 250
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Where is Geography and Education Methods research done?

The largest centres of Geography and Education Methods research in 2022-now are Bogotá (Colombia), Madrid (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bogotá.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BogotáColombia 58 works
  2. 2 MadridSpain 52 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 44 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 42 works
  5. 5 Buenos AiresArgentina 32 works
  6. 6 ValenciaSpain 29 works
  7. 7 SantiagoChile 22 works
  8. 8 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 21 works
  9. 9 Panama CityPanama 19 works
  10. 10 ZaragozaSpain 16 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BogotáCO · 58.5 works26×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Geography and Education Methods than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Geography and Education Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de València, University of Alicante and Universidad de Zaragoza 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%20%40%mean 16.14%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of AlicanteUniversitat de Valèn…Universidad de Zarag…Universidad de Granada
above the meannear itbelow it

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
1Universitat de ValènciaSpain 79.520.5%40.8×25 +11.5%
2University of AlicanteSpain 60.229.9%29.7×10 +74.2%
3Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 57.719.2%30.6×15 +70.7%
4Universidad de GranadaSpain 47.218.1%24.1×15 -20.3%
5Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 46.37.3%18.1×20 +91.1%
6Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 43.513.5%15.1×15 +3.1%
7Universidad de MurciaSpain 43.115.7%39.3×14 -16.2%
8Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 39.219.8%10.3×9 -9.8%
9Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 38.715.4%161.8×11 +792.3%
10Universidad Nacional de ColombiaColombia 36.22.0%35.8×14 +60.0%

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 Geography and Education Methods, country by country

Is Geography and Education Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Geography and Education Methods.

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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 Geography and Education Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

still counting0.0025%0.0050%0.0075%Geography and Education Methods0.0065% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geography and Education Methods 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%Geography and Education Methods10.5% 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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