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Historical Education and Society

Historical Education and Society is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 5.5k research works in it since 1950. 10.4% 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 the history, policies, and cultural discourses of education, with a focus on Portugal. It includes studies on teacher training, social movements, identity formation, and lifelong learning.

  • Education
  • History
  • Policies
  • Portugal
  • Schooling
  • Cultural Discourses
  • Teacher Training
  • Social Movements
  • Identity Formation
  • Lifelong Learning
Research works
5.5k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
568
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.4%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Historical Education and Society

Which countries lead Historical Education and Society research?

By volume, Brazil and Portugal publish the most (360 and 247 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 360 works
  2. 2 Portugal 247 works
  3. 3 Spain 83 works
  4. 4 France 68 works
  5. 5 Hungary 53 works
  6. 6 Italy 51 works
  7. 7 Germany 34 works
  8. 8 United States 26 works
  9. 9 Switzerland 19 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 16 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: 37.7%Portugal: 25.9%Spain: 8.7%France: 7.1%6 others listed: 20.8%38%largest
Brazil360 · 37.7%Portugal247 · 25.9%Spain83 · 8.7%France68 · 7.1%6 others listed198 · 20.8%

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

Which institutions lead Historical Education and Society research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Lisbon publishes the most Historical Education and Society research, followed by University of Coimbra and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of LisbonPortugal 47 works
  2. 2 University of CoimbraPortugal 41 works
  3. 3 Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal 36 works
  4. 4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27 works
  5. 5 Universidade do PortoPortugal 21 works
  6. 6 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 17 works
  7. 7 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 17 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 14 works
  9. 9 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 13 works
  10. 10 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 11 works

Who are the leading researchers in Historical Education and Society?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Historical Education and Society include Ian J. Deary, Émile Durkheim and Jeremy N. Rich.

  1. 1 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k citations
  2. 2 Émile Durkheim United States 64k citations
  3. 3 Jeremy N. Rich United States 62k citations
  4. 4 Frank Simon Germany 55k 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 Historical Education and Society?

The most cited paper in Historical Education and Society is "PROFESSORES: IMAGENS DO FUTURO PRESENTE" (Maitê Alves Bezerra, 2014), with 1,306 citations. Next come "As peculiaridades dos ingleses e outros artigos" (296) and "Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: The Role of Transnational Policy Actors" (235).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 PROFESSORES: IMAGENS DO FUTURO PRESENTE Maitê Alves Bezerra · Administração Ensino e Pesquisa Open access 30 Jun 2014 1,306
2 As peculiaridades dos ingleses e outros artigos María Verónica Secreto · Revista Brasileira de História Open access 2003 296
3 Constructing a European Policy Space in Educational Governance: The Role of Transnational Policy Actors Martin Lawn, Bob Lingard · European Educational Research Journal Open access Jun 2002 235
4 O Estado, a educação e a regulação das políticas públicas João Barroso · Educação & Sociedade Open access Oct 2005 161
5 A Cultura Escolar como Objeto Histórico Dominique Juliá · Americanae (AECID Library) Open access Jun 2001 147
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Historical Education and Society research done?

The largest centres of Historical Education and Society research in 2022-now are Lisbon (Portugal), São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Coimbra (Portugal). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Coimbra, Lisbon and Porto.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LisbonPortugal 132 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 83 works
  3. 3 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 43 works
  4. 4 CoimbraPortugal 42 works
  5. 5 BudapestHungary 26 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 26 works
  7. 7 PortoPortugal 24 works
  8. 8 Belo HorizonteBrazil 20 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 15 works
  10. 10 CuritibaBrazil 13 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. CoimbraPT · 42.0 works71×
  2. LisbonPT · 131.5 works55×
  3. PortoPT · 23.8 works20×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Historical Education and Society than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Historical Education and Society?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Lisbon, Universidade Federal de São Paulo and Universidade Nova de Lisboa 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 10.03%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…University of LisbonUniversidade Nova de…Universidade de São …
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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
1University of LisbonPortugal 75.515.4%65.2×47 -25.5%
2Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil 52.516.0%22.7×9 +8.2%
3Universidade Nova de LisboaPortugal 49.38.1%134.1×36 -26.9%
4Universidade de São PauloBrazil 46.47.2%14.6×27 +47.6%
5Eötvös Loránd UniversityHungary 45.711.8%35.9×10 +40.4%
6Universidade do PortoPortugal 44.711.5%34.0×21 -30.6%
7University of DebrecenHungary 40.813.0%31.9×8 +123.0%
8University of CoimbraPortugal 36.84.0%92.7×41 -30.9%
9Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 34.07.4%20.6×14 +312.5%
10University of MinhoPortugal 28.35.9%26.1×8 -30.2%

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 Historical Education and Society, country by country

Is Historical Education and Society research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

still counting19801990200020102020
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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 Historical Education and Society as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Historical Education and Society0.0048% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Historical Education and Society 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%Historical Education and Society9.6% 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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