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Inclusive Education and Diversity

Inclusive Education and Diversity is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 4.6k research works in it since 1969. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on inclusive education, social impact, and transformative methodologies, emphasizing dialogic learning, community participation, and the inclusion of vulnerable populations. It addresses issues such as gender violence, interactive groups, and the critical communicative methodology in the context of school transformation and educational inclusion.

  • Inclusive Education
  • Social Impact
  • Dialogic Learning
  • Vulnerable Populations
  • Community Participation
  • Gender Violence
  • Interactive Groups
  • Educational Inclusion
  • Critical Communicative Methodology
  • School Transformation
Research works
4.6k
fractional, since 1969
In the world top 10%
455
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+44%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Inclusive Education and Diversity

Which countries lead Inclusive Education and Diversity research?

By volume, Spain and Ecuador publish the most (513 and 202 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 513 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 202 works
  3. 3 Mexico 176 works
  4. 4 Chile 167 works
  5. 5 Colombia 148 works
  6. 6 Brazil 128 works
  7. 7 United States 61 works
  8. 8 Peru 53 works
  9. 9 Argentina 46 works
  10. 10 ?? 41 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: 33.4%Ecuador: 13.2%Mexico: 11.5%Chile: 10.9%6 others listed: 31.1%33%largest
Spain513 · 33.4%Ecuador202 · 13.2%Mexico176 · 11.5%Chile167 · 10.9%6 others listed476 · 31.1%

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

Which institutions lead Inclusive Education and Diversity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ação Educativa publishes the most Inclusive Education and Diversity research, followed by Universidad Estatal de Milagro and Universidad de Sevilla.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ação EducativaBrazil 50 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 35 works
  3. 3 Universidad de SevillaSpain 22 works
  4. 4 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 22 works
  5. 5 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 22 works
  6. 6 Universidad de GranadaSpain 22 works
  7. 7 Universidad César VallejoPeru 21 works
  8. 8 Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 21 works
  9. 9 Departamento de EducaciónSpain 21 works
  10. 10 Universidad de MurciaSpain 21 works

Who are the leading researchers in Inclusive Education and Diversity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Inclusive Education and Diversity include José Carmelo Adsuar.

  1. 1 José Carmelo Adsuar Spain 71k 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 Inclusive Education and Diversity?

The most cited paper in Inclusive Education and Diversity is "World Report on Disability" (María del Carmen Malbrán, 2011), with 1,694 citations. Next come "Exploring inclusive pedagogy" (1,151) and "Understanding inclusive education: ideals and reality" (631).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 World Report on Disability María del Carmen Malbrán · Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities Dec 2011 1,694
2 Exploring inclusive pedagogy Lani Florian, Kristine Black‐Hawkins · British Educational Research Journal 21 Jul 2010 1,151
3 Understanding inclusive education: ideals and reality Peder Haug · Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research Open access 26 Aug 2016 631
4 Changing student teachers’ attitudes towards disability and inclusion J.H. Campbell, Linda Gilmore, Monica Cuskelly · Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability Open access Dec 2003 484
5 What counts as evidence of inclusive education? Lani Florian · European Journal of Special Needs Education Open access 3 Jul 2014 479
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Inclusive Education and Diversity research done?

The largest centres of Inclusive Education and Diversity research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Bogotá (Colombia) and Santiago (Chile). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Guayaquil and Panama City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 85 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 67 works
  3. 3 BogotáColombia 65 works
  4. 4 SantiagoChile 65 works
  5. 5 GuayaquilEcuador 56 works
  6. 6 Mexico CityMexico 45 works
  7. 7 BarcelonaSpain 40 works
  8. 8 SevilleSpain 31 works
  9. 9 Panama CityPanama 29 works
  10. 10 TrujilloPeru 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán22.0 works136×
  2. GuayaquilEC · 55.9 works58×
  3. Panama CityPA · 29.5 works52×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Inclusive Education and Diversity on the map

Where is the best place to study Inclusive Education and Diversity?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad Andrés Bello 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%mean 17.53%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Andrés B…Universidad Autónoma…Universidad de SevillaUniversitat de Barce…
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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
1Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 69.617.7%18.2×22 -5.3%
2Universidad Autónoma de MadridSpain 68.818.7%23.4×21 +7.8%
3Universidad Andrés BelloChile 67.419.7%92.4×12 +224.4%
4Universidad de SevillaSpain 65.818.0%24.7×22 -5.1%
5Universidad César VallejoPeru 65.017.8%49.1×21 +421.8%
6Universidad de ExtremaduraSpain 64.934.4%27.9×9 +66.9%
7Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 59.610.1%198.2×35 -
8Universitat de ValènciaSpain 56.59.8%21.9×19 +40.3%
9Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileChile 56.418.3%21.1×10 +51.6%
10University of the Basque CountrySpain 55.210.8%23.4×18 +33.6%

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 Inclusive Education and Diversity, country by country

Is Inclusive Education and Diversity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 44% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Inclusive Education and Diversity.

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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 Inclusive Education and Diversity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0062% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Inclusive Education and Diversity0.010% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Inclusive Education and Diversity 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%Inclusive Education and Diversity10.1% 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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