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Health, Education, and Aging

Health, Education, and Aging is a research topic within Health. Science Explorer counts 3.7k research works in it since 1970. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to health, education, and social sciences research. It includes studies on aging, nutrition, teaching methods, public policy, gender studies, environmental education, and youth development. The papers reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding and addressing various aspects of health and education in different contexts.

  • health
  • education
  • aging
  • social sciences
  • nutrition
  • teaching methods
  • public policy
  • gender studies
  • environmental education
  • youth development
Research works
3.7k
fractional, since 1970
In the world top 10%
364
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+62%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
86% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Health, Education, and Aging

Which countries lead Health, Education, and Aging research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 70 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 70 works
  3. 3 Portugal 56 works
  4. 4 Spain 24 works
  5. 5 India 18 works
  6. 6 ?? 17 works
  7. 7 Mexico 14 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 11 works
  9. 9 Italy 10 works
  10. 10 Uruguay 10 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: 85.8%United States: 4.4%Portugal: 3.5%Spain: 1.5%6 others listed: 4.9%86%largest
Brazil1,382 · 85.8%United States70 · 4.4%Portugal56 · 3.5%Spain24 · 1.5%6 others listed79 · 4.9%

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

Which institutions lead Health, Education, and Aging research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade de São Paulo publishes the most Health, Education, and Aging research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade Federal do Pará.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 31 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 26 works
  3. 3 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 24 works
  4. 4 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 23 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 21 works
  6. 6 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 20 works
  7. 7 Integral Consulting (United States)United States 19 works
  8. 8 Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 18 works
  9. 9 Universidade Tecnológica Federal do ParanáBrazil 18 works
  10. 10 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Health, Education, and Aging?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Health, Education, and Aging include Paulo A. Lotufo, Déborah Carvalho Malta and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

  1. 1 Paulo A. Lotufo Brazil 239k citations
  2. 2 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
  3. 3 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k citations
  4. 4 Cesar Gomes Victora Brazil 131k citations
  5. 5 Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider Brazil 120k citations
  6. 6 Peter Todd Katzmarzyk United States 99k 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 Health, Education, and Aging?

The most cited paper in Health, Education, and Aging is "Social Competence at School: Relation Between Social Responsibility and Academic Achievement" (Kathryn R. Wentzel, 1991), with 453 citations. Next come "Para uma imagem não deformada do trabalho científico" (305) and "Alfabetização científica: uma possibilidade para a inclusão social" (300).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Competence at School: Relation Between Social Responsibility and Academic Achievement Kathryn R. Wentzel · Review of Educational Research Mar 1991 453
2 Para uma imagem não deformada do trabalho científico Daniel Gil Pérez, Isabel Fernández Montoro, Jaime Carrascosa Alís et al. · Ciência & Educação (Bauru) Open access 2001 305
3 Alfabetização científica: uma possibilidade para a inclusão social Attico Chassot · Revista Brasileira de Educação Open access Apr 2003 300
4 Uma análise de pressupostos teóricos da abordagem C-T-S (Ciência - Tecnologia - Sociedade) no contexto da educação brasileira Wildson Luiz Pereira dos Santos, Eduardo Fleury Mortimer · Ensaio Open access Dec 2000 271
5 Por um novo conceito e paradigma de educação digital onlife José António Moreira, Eliane Schlemmer · Revista UFG Open access 13 May 2020 249
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Where is Health, Education, and Aging research done?

The largest centres of Health, Education, and Aging research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brasília (Brazil) and Belém (Brazil).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 185 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 105 works
  3. 3 BrasíliaBrazil 52 works
  4. 4 BelémBrazil 49 works
  5. 5 CuritibaBrazil 49 works
  6. 6 Belo HorizonteBrazil 45 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 44 works
  8. 8 RecifeBrazil 32 works
  9. 9 FlorianópolisBrazil 31 works
  10. 10 Porto AlegreBrazil 30 works
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Where is the best place to study Health, Education, and Aging?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade de São Paulo 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.

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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 Federal de PernambucoBrazil 78.017.8%21.2×15 +54.8%
2Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 76.111.6%15.6×17 +176.4%
3Universidade de São PauloBrazil 76.07.1%10.5×31 +79.8%
4Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 72.812.1%25.0×17 +189.5%
5Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 69.88.8%21.9×26 +46.0%
6Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 69.39.0%22.4×21 +66.1%
7Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 68.49.1%27.7×23 +283.5%
8Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 68.08.5%18.1×20 +31.0%
9Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 65.912.2%22.6×16 +325.3%
10Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 62.49.2%14.5×16 +79.1%

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 Health, Education, and Aging, country by country

Is Health, Education, and Aging research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 62% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health, Education, and Aging.

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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 Health, Education, and Aging as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Health, Education, and Aging 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.

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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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