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Health, Education, and Physical Culture

Health, Education, and Physical Culture is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 5.5k research works in it since 1952. 4.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of nonverbal communication and expressive movement in education, including topics such as competence-oriented training, intercultural education, teacher perception, and social inclusion. It also delves into language practices and their impact on social roles, as well as the intersection of nonverbal communication with public health.

  • Nonverbal Communication
  • Education
  • Expressive Movement
  • Competence-Oriented Training
  • Intercultural Education
  • Body Expression
  • Teacher Perception
  • Social Inclusion
  • Language Practices
  • Public Health
Research works
5.5k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
264
per year above
Top-10% rate
4.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+14%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Health, Education, and Physical Culture research?

By volume, Spain and Ecuador publish the most (312 and 151 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Spain 312 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 151 works
  3. 3 Colombia 135 works
  4. 4 Mexico 128 works
  5. 5 Chile 112 works
  6. 6 Brazil 68 works
  7. 7 Argentina 61 works
  8. 8 Peru 56 works
  9. 9 ?? 36 works
  10. 10 United States 33 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: 28.6%Ecuador: 13.9%Colombia: 12.4%Mexico: 11.8%6 others listed: 33.4%29%largest
Spain312 · 28.6%Ecuador151 · 13.9%Colombia135 · 12.4%Mexico128 · 11.8%6 others listed364 · 33.4%

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

Which institutions lead Health, Education, and Physical Culture research?

By volume in 2022–2025, University of Guayaquil publishes the most Health, Education, and Physical Culture research, followed by Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 University of GuayaquilEcuador 22 works
  2. 2 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador?? 20 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 20 works
  4. 4 University of ChileChile 17 works
  5. 5 Central University of EcuadorEcuador 14 works
  6. 6 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 13 works
  7. 7 Universidad de GranadaSpain 13 works
  8. 8 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 13 works
  9. 9 Universidad César VallejoPeru 12 works
  10. 10 Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los AndesEcuador 12 works

Where is Health, Education, and Physical Culture research done?

The largest centres of Health, Education, and Physical Culture research in 2022–2025 are Bogotá (Colombia), Santiago (Chile), Madrid (Spain) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Panama City and Guayaquil.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Bogotá Colombia 59 works
  2. 2 Santiago Chile 57 works
  3. 3 Madrid Spain 53 works
  4. 4 Mexico City Mexico 43 works
  5. 5 Guayaquil Ecuador 35 works
  6. 6 São Paulo Brazil 28 works
  7. 7 Barcelona Spain 26 works
  8. 8 Lima Peru 23 works
  9. 9 Panama City Panama 22 works
  10. 10 Quito Ecuador 21 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán20.4 works208×
  2. Panama CityPA · 21.6 works57×
  3. GuayaquilEC · 34.6 works57×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Health, Education, and Physical Culture than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Health, Education, and Physical Culture?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad César Vallejo, Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí and Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 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 9.69%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Universidad César Vallejo: 12, 14.0%Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de Manabí: 9, 14.3%Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador: 20, 6.8%Universidad de Murcia: 12, 9.2%University of Guayaquil: 22, 4.1%Central University of Ecuador: 14, 8.6%Universidad de Granada: 13, 9.4%Universidad Católica de Cuenca: 10, 11.3%Universitat de Barcelona: 11, 8.0%Universidad Técnica de Manabí: 9, 11.2%Universidad Laica El…Universidad César Va…Universidad de MurciaUniversidad Bolivari…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Universidad César VallejoPeru 68.914.0%35.0×12 —
2 Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de ManabíEcuador 65.014.3%102.6×9 —
3Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador?? 64.16.8%208.3×20 —
4 Universidad de MurciaSpain 63.19.2%32.4×12 +92.6%
5 University of GuayaquilEcuador 62.94.1%109.4×22 —
6 Central University of EcuadorEcuador 62.78.6%100.1×14 —
7 Universidad de GranadaSpain 61.29.4%19.5×13 +13.8%
8 Universidad Católica de CuencaEcuador 60.211.3%41.9×10 —
9 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 58.18.0%15.9×11 +49.8%
10 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 58.111.2%50.7×9 —

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Health, Education, and Physical Culture research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 14% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Health, Education, and Physical Culture.

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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.

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.