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Ideological and Political Education

Ideological and Political Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 42k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the innovation and development of ideological and political education, particularly in the context of big data, artificial intelligence, wireless sensor networks, and deep learning. It explores topics such as network education, multimedia technology, and information systems for college students.

  • Ideological Education
  • Political Education
  • Big Data
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Information Systems
  • College Students
  • Network Education
  • Multimedia Technology
Research works
42k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
4.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+91%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
89% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Ideological and Political Education

Which countries lead Ideological and Political Education research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (4.8k and 112 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.8k works
  2. 2 United States 112 works
  3. 3 ?? 85 works
  4. 4 Malaysia 73 works
  5. 5 Philippines 70 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 55 works
  7. 7 India 52 works
  8. 8 Thailand 48 works
  9. 9 Russia 39 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 37 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.

China: 89.3%United States: 2.1%??: 1.6%Malaysia: 1.4%6 others listed: 5.6%89%largest
China4,754 · 89.3%United States112 · 2.1%??85 · 1.6%Malaysia73 · 1.4%6 others listed301 · 5.6%

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

Which institutions lead Ideological and Political Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Anhui University of Finance and Economics publishes the most Ideological and Political Education research, followed by Taishan University and Sichuan University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 58 works
  2. 2 Taishan UniversityChina 48 works
  3. 3 Sichuan UniversityChina 33 works
  4. 4 Sichuan University of Science and EngineeringChina 30 works
  5. 5 Zhaoqing UniversityChina 29 works
  6. 6 Wenzhou PolytechnicChina 28 works
  7. 7 Zibo Vocational InstituteChina 27 works
  8. 8 Dongguan University of TechnologyChina 27 works
  9. 9 University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 25 works
  10. 10 University of Shanghai for Science and TechnologyChina 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Ideological and Political Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Ideological and Political Education include Shanshan Li and Jin Li.

  1. 1 Shanshan Li Australia 139k citations
  2. 2 Jin Li China 132k 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 Ideological and Political Education?

The most cited paper in Ideological and Political Education is "On Researching Lived Experience" (Liu Yu-ju, 2010), with 1,302 citations. Next come "Education:Practice of Freedom" (446) and "“School’s Out, But Class’s On”, The Largest Online Education in the World Today: Taking China’s Practical Exploration During The COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control as an Example" (324).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 On Researching Lived Experience Liu Yu-ju · Journal of Tangshan Teachers College 2010 1,302
2 Education:Practice of Freedom Wenquan Feng · Kyouikugaku no kenkyuu to jissen 2012 446
3 “School’s Out, But Class’s On”, The Largest Online Education in the World Today: Taking China’s Practical Exploration During The COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control as an Example Longjun Zhou, Fangmei Li, Shanshan Wu et al. · Best Evidence of Chinese Education Open access 15 Mar 2020 324
4 Introduction of Key Problems in Long-Distance Learning and Training Shuai Liu, Zhaojun Steven Li, Yudong Zhang et al. · Mobile Networks and Applications Open access 3 Oct 2018 287
5 Current Policies and Measures on the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China Wanying Wang, Hua Zhou, Yafeng Wang et al. · Pharmacological Research Open access 9 Sep 2020 181
All 89 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Ideological and Political Education research done?

The largest centres of Ideological and Political Education research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Xi'an (China), Guangzhou (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zhaoqing.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 328 works
  2. 2 Xi'anChina 210 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 196 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 187 works
  5. 5 ChengduChina 186 works
  6. 6 JinanChina 162 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 152 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 143 works
  9. 9 ChongqingChina 135 works
  10. 10 HarbinChina 99 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZhaoqingCN · 29.5 works74×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Ideological and Political Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Ideological and Political Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, North China University of Science and Technology and Zhejiang Yuexiu University score highest, combining citation 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%mean 16.13%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →North China Universi…Zhejiang Yuexiu Univ…Krirk UniversityAnhui University of …
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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.

Citation 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
1Anhui University of Finance and EconomicsChina 61.36.2%90.3×58 +1202.2%
2North China University of Science and TechnologyChina 61.332.2%10.6×8 +504.2%
3Zhejiang Yuexiu University 60.414.7%170.1×19 +197.8%
4Krirk UniversityThailand 60.014.2%75.6×16 +1525.0%
5Shenzhen Polytechnic UniversityChina 59.211.1%42.5×20 +324.2%
6Taishan UniversityChina 58.16.5%181.6×48 +500.0%
7Xi'an Siyuan UniversityChina 57.321.6%227.0×10 +544.4%
8Hainan Normal UniversityChina 57.228.8%24.9×8 +88.7%
9University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaChina 56.614.2%4.6×25 +20.1%
10Zibo Vocational InstituteChina 55.711.8%178.8×26 +520.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Ideological and Political Education, country by country

Is Ideological and Political Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 91% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011. The fastest-growing topics are Ideological and Political Education.

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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 Ideological and Political Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Ideological and Political Education0.020% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Ideological and Political Education 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%Ideological and Political Education10.0% in 202520102020

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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