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Global Educational Policies and Reforms

Global Educational Policies and Reforms is a research topic within Political Science and International Relations. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the global governance of education policy, focusing on the impact of globalization, neoliberalism, and the PISA study. It delves into topics such as public-private partnerships, data visualization, policy borrowing, and digital education governance, reflecting a critical examination of education policies in various national and international contexts.

  • Globalization
  • Neoliberalism
  • Education Policy
  • Comparative Education
  • Lifelong Learning
  • PISA Study
  • Public-Private Partnerships
  • Data Visualization
  • Policy Borrowing
  • Digital Education Governance
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
23% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Global Educational Policies and Reforms

Which countries lead Global Educational Policies and Reforms research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (683 and 611 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 683 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 611 works
  3. 3 Australia 290 works
  4. 4 China 284 works
  5. 5 India 261 works
  6. 6 South Africa 222 works
  7. 7 Germany 201 works
  8. 8 Canada 198 works
  9. 9 Brazil 147 works
  10. 10 Sweden 132 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: 22.6%United Kingdom: 20.2%Australia: 9.6%China: 9.4%6 others listed: 38.3%23%largest
United States683 · 22.6%United Kingdom611 · 20.2%Australia290 · 9.6%China284 · 9.4%6 others listed1,161 · 38.3%

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

Which institutions lead Global Educational Policies and Reforms research?

By volume in 2022-now, University College London publishes the most Global Educational Policies and Reforms research, followed by University of South Africa and Education University of Hong Kong.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63 works
  2. 2 University of South AfricaSouth Africa 33 works
  3. 3 Education University of Hong KongChina 32 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 30 works
  5. 5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 30 works
  6. 6 University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 29 works
  7. 7 University of TorontoCanada 27 works
  8. 8 Aarhus UniversityDenmark 26 works
  9. 9 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 26 works
  10. 10 The University of MelbourneAustralia 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Global Educational Policies and Reforms?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Global Educational Policies and Reforms include Pierre Bourdıeu, Michael L. Rutter and Norman K. Denzin.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Michael L. Rutter United Kingdom 163k citations
  3. 3 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k 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 Educational Policies and Reforms?

The most cited paper in Global Educational Policies and Reforms is "Chapter 3 : Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education" (James Paul Gee, 2000), with 2,727 citations. Next come "Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research" (2,560) and "Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects" (2,320).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Chapter 3 : Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education James Paul Gee · Review of Research in Education 2000 2,727
2 Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research Joe L. Kincheloe, Peter L. McLaren · SensePublishers eBooks Book chapter 2011 2,560
3 Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects Sanne Floor Akkerman, Arthur Bakker · Review of Educational Research 20 Apr 2011 2,320
4 Freedom to Learn Edgar Z. Friedenberg · The Journal of Higher Education Mar 1971 2,281
5 The Worldwide Expansion of Higher Education in the Twentieth Century Evan Schofer, John W. Meyer · American Sociological Review Dec 2005 1,664
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Global Educational Policies and Reforms research done?

The largest centres of Global Educational Policies and Reforms research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), Brisbane (Australia) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 130 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 71 works
  3. 3 BrisbaneAustralia 66 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 61 works
  5. 5 TorontoCanada 48 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 45 works
  7. 7 PretoriaSouth Africa 45 works
  8. 8 JohannesburgSouth Africa 45 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 42 works
  10. 10 OsloNorway 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 32.6 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Global Educational Policies and Reforms than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Global Educational Policies and Reforms?

Among universities, judged by research, Education University of Hong Kong, Nazarbayev University and Open University of Cyprus 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%60%mean 24.87%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Open University of C…Nazarbayev UniversityEducation University…University of Oxford
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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
1Education University of Hong KongChina 70.827.8%47.8×32 +104.9%
2Nazarbayev UniversityKazakhstan 68.338.5%14.6×10 +139.5%
3Open University of CyprusCyprus 65.747.9%122.1×9 +5.4%
4University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63.826.2%4.5×30 +57.5%
5University College LondonUnited Kingdom 63.616.1%8.4×63 -18.4%
6University of ManchesterUnited Kingdom 57.521.8%6.0×24 +73.3%
7University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 57.418.6%7.9×24 +40.0%
8University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 57.313.8%5.4×30 +16.8%
9The University of MelbourneAustralia 57.221.4%4.7×25 +52.8%
10University of JohannesburgSouth Africa 57.016.6%10.0×29 +72.9%

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 Global Educational Policies and Reforms, country by country

Is Global Educational Policies and Reforms research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Global Educational Policies and Reforms.

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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 Educational Policies and Reforms as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Global Educational Policies and Reforms0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Global Educational Policies and Reforms 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 Educational Policies and Reforms10.2% 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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