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Geography Education and Pedagogy

Geography Education and Pedagogy is a research topic within Geography, Planning and Development. Science Explorer counts 9.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on geography education, emphasizing the importance of spatial thinking, experiential learning, and the use of geographic information systems (GIS) technology. It explores topics such as fieldwork, student perceptions, virtual field trips, and critical spatial thinking in the context of geography education. The papers also discuss the impact of active learning approaches and the potential of GIS technology to enhance geographical learning experiences.

  • Geography Education
  • Spatial Thinking
  • Experiential Learning
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Fieldwork
  • Active Learning
  • Student Perception
  • Virtual Field Trips
  • Critical Spatial Thinking
  • GIS Technology
Research works
9.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
973
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Geography Education and Pedagogy

Which countries lead Geography Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (476 and 184 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 476 works
  2. 2 Indonesia 184 works
  3. 3 Brazil 177 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 115 works
  5. 5 China 98 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 96 works
  7. 7 Germany 91 works
  8. 8 Spain 60 works
  9. 9 Australia 54 works
  10. 10 France 45 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 States: 34.1%Indonesia: 13.2%Brazil: 12.7%United Kingdom: 8.2%6 others listed: 31.8%34%largest
United States476 · 34.1%Indonesia184 · 13.2%Brazil177 · 12.7%United Kingdom115 · 8.2%6 others listed444 · 31.8%

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

Which institutions lead Geography Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022-now, State University of Malang publishes the most Geography Education and Pedagogy research, followed by Indonesia University of Education and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State University of MalangIndonesia 33 works
  2. 2 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 17 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 15 works
  4. 4 University of KansasUnited States 14 works
  5. 5 University of HelsinkiFinland 10 works
  6. 6 University of CologneGermany 10 works
  7. 7 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 10 works
  8. 8 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 9 works
  9. 9 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 9 works
  10. 10 Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical UniversityKazakhstan 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Geography Education and Pedagogy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Geography Education and Pedagogy include Paul Elliott and Robert J. Plomin.

  1. 1 Paul Elliott United Kingdom 154k citations
  2. 2 Robert J. Plomin United Kingdom 106k 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 Education and Pedagogy?

The most cited paper in Geography Education and Pedagogy is "Mental Rotations, a Group Test of Three-Dimensional Spatial Visualization" (Steven G. Vandenberg, Allan R. Kuse, 1978), with 2,648 citations. Next come "The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies." (1,903) and "Inventory and Quantitative Assessment of Geosites and Geodiversity Sites: a Review" (1,449).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Mental Rotations, a Group Test of Three-Dimensional Spatial Visualization Steven G. Vandenberg, Allan R. Kuse · Perceptual and Motor Skills Dec 1978 2,648
2 The malleability of spatial skills: A meta-analysis of training studies. David H. Uttal, Nathaniel G. Meadow, Elizabeth Tipton et al. · Psychological Bulletin Review 5 Jun 2012 1,903
3 Inventory and Quantitative Assessment of Geosites and Geodiversity Sites: a Review José Brilha · Geoheritage Open access 14 Jan 2015 1,449
4 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Handbook II: Affective Domain Richard W. Morshead · Studies in Philosophy and Education 1965 1,198
5 Differences in spatial knowledge acquired from maps and navigation Perry W. Thorndyke, Barbara Hayes‐Roth · Cognitive Psychology Oct 1982 1,176
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Geography Education and Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Geography Education and Pedagogy research in 2022-now are Malang (Indonesia), São Paulo (Brazil), Ankara (Türkiye) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Malang.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MalangIndonesia 36 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 25 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 24 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  5. 5 BeijingChina 24 works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 19 works
  7. 7 SingaporeSingapore 16 works
  8. 8 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 15 works
  9. 9 AlmatyKazakhstan 15 works
  10. 10 LawrenceUnited States 15 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MalangID · 35.5 works5.5×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, State University of Malang, Texas State University and University College London 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 12.4%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University College L…Texas State UniversityUniversity of CologneState University of …
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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
1State University of MalangIndonesia 57.73.2%18.4×33 +107.0%
2Texas State UniversityUnited States 57.128.1%37.2×8 +51.4%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 52.431.3%2.9×9 -7.8%
4University of CologneGermany 45.015.1%11.7×10 +9.3%
5University of KansasUnited States 43.30.7%14.6×14 +843.9%
6University of HelsinkiFinland 41.39.5%7.2×10 +95.1%
7Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical UniversityKazakhstan 38.510.9%84.8×9 -
8Masaryk UniversityCzechia 36.77.7%15.3×8 +87.0%
9Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 32.810.0%5.5×8 -25.5%
10Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 31.17.5%6.7×10 +75.2%

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 Geography Education and Pedagogy, country by country

Is Geography Education and Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Geography Education and Pedagogy.

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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 Education and Pedagogy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0087% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Geography Education and Pedagogy0.0095% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Geography Education and Pedagogy 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 Education and Pedagogy10.5% 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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