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Global Education Systems and Policies

Global Education Systems and Policies is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 4.2k 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 explores the challenges and reforms in higher education systems, focusing on topics such as lifelong learning, education reform, e-learning, globalization's impact, sustainable development, teacher training, the knowledge economy, inclusive education, and policy and practice.

  • Higher Education
  • Lifelong Learning
  • Education Reform
  • E-Learning
  • Globalization
  • Sustainable Development
  • Teacher Training
  • Knowledge Economy
  • Inclusive Education
  • Policy and Practice
Research works
4.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
422
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+10%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
52% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Education Systems and Policies

Which countries lead Global Education Systems and Policies research?

By volume, India and Poland publish the most (412 and 176 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 412 works
  2. 2 Poland 176 works
  3. 3 United States 75 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 29 works
  5. 5 Australia 26 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 22 works
  7. 7 South Africa 16 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 16 works
  9. 9 Romania 15 works
  10. 10 China 14 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.

India: 51.5%Poland: 21.9%United States: 9.4%Indonesia: 3.6%6 others listed: 13.5%52%largest
India412 · 51.5%Poland176 · 21.9%United States75 · 9.4%Indonesia29 · 3.6%6 others listed108 · 13.5%

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

Which institutions lead Global Education Systems and Policies research?

By volume in 2022-now, G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce College publishes the most Global Education Systems and Policies research, followed by Government of Western Australia and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

Who are the leading researchers in Global Education Systems and Policies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Education Systems and Policies include Ian H. Witten and Sharan B. Merriam.

  1. 1 Ian H. Witten New Zealand 89k citations
  2. 2 Sharan B. Merriam United States 70k 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 Global Education Systems and Policies?

The most cited paper in Global Education Systems and Policies is "Research on Globalization and Education" (Joel H. Spring, 2008), with 457 citations. Next come "Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education" (451) and "A United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–14)" (431).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research on Globalization and Education Joel H. Spring · Review of Educational Research Jun 2008 457
2 Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education Helene Ijaz · Teaching Education 1995 451
3 A United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–14) Ingrid Mulà, Daniella Tilbury · Journal of Education for Sustainable Development Mar 2009 431
4 Building Upon the Theoretical Debate: A Critical Review of the Empirical Studies of Mezirow's Transformative Learning Theory Edward W. Taylor · Adult Education Quarterly Nov 1997 406
5 Developing university social responsibility: A model for the challenges of the new civil society Ruxandra Eleonora Vasilescu, Cristina Barna, Manuela Epure et al. · Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Conference paperOpen access 2010 347
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Where is Global Education Systems and Policies research done?

The largest centres of Global Education Systems and Policies research in 2022-now are Warsaw (Poland), New Delhi (India), Krakow (Poland) and Akola (India).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 WarsawPoland 31 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 26 works
  3. 3 KrakowPoland 22 works
  4. 4 AkolaIndia 19 works
  5. 5 CanberraAustralia 18 works
  6. 6 MumbaiIndia 13 works
  7. 7 ŁódźPoland 12 works
  8. 8 JalandharIndia 12 works
  9. 9 PoznańPoland 11 works
  10. 10 PuneIndia 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Global Education Systems and Policies?

Among universities, judged by research, The Maria Grzegorzewska University, G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce College and Jagiellonian University 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%mean 8.82%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →The Maria Grzegorzew…Jagiellonian Univers…University of ŁódźG.S. Science, Arts A…
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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
1The Maria Grzegorzewska UniversityPoland 50.817.5%229.9×8 +22.2%
2G.S. Science, Arts And Commerce CollegeIndia 40.94.5%125.8×19 -
3Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 27.38.6%14.6×9 -20.9%
4University of ŁódźPoland 26.45.8%31.5×8 +18.7%
5Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 17.07.7%24.2×9 -59.3%

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 Global Education Systems and Policies, country by country

Is Global Education Systems and Policies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Global Education Systems and Policies.

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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 Global Education Systems and Policies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0036% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Global Education Systems and Policies 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%Global Education Systems and Policies10.6% 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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