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Innovations in Educational Methods

Innovations in Educational Methods is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the effectiveness of podcasting and other audio/video technologies in higher education, focusing on student attendance, engagement, and academic performance. It investigates the impact of lecture capture, online learning, and educational technology on teaching methods and student outcomes.

  • Podcasting
  • Higher Education
  • Student Attendance
  • Lecture Capture
  • Student Performance
  • Educational Technology
  • Classroom Engagement
  • Online Learning
  • Teaching Methods
  • Academic Achievement
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
51% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Innovations in Educational Methods

Which countries lead Innovations in Educational Methods research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (795 and 133 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 795 works
  2. 2 India 133 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 115 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 106 works
  5. 5 China 78 works
  6. 6 Australia 76 works
  7. 7 Germany 75 works
  8. 8 Spain 62 works
  9. 9 Nigeria 61 works
  10. 10 South Africa 52 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.

United States: 51.2%India: 8.6%United Kingdom: 7.4%Indonesia: 6.9%6 others listed: 25.9%51%largest
United States795 · 51.2%India133 · 8.6%United Kingdom115 · 7.4%Indonesia106 · 6.9%6 others listed403 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Innovations in Educational Methods research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indiana University publishes the most Innovations in Educational Methods research, followed by Swinburne University of Technology and The University of Texas at Austin.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indiana UniversityUnited States 10 works
  2. 2 Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 8 works
  3. 3 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 8 works
  4. 4 City University of New YorkUnited States 8 works
  5. 5 University of TampaUnited States 7 works
  6. 6 University of TorontoCanada 6 works
  7. 7 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 Stanford UniversityUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 6 works
  10. 10 Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Innovations in Educational Methods?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Innovations in Educational Methods include James Thomas and Joseph E. Stiglitz.

  1. 1 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  2. 2 Joseph E. Stiglitz United States 167k 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 Innovations in Educational Methods?

The most cited paper in Innovations in Educational Methods is "The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing" (Kenneth Joseph Arrow, 1962), with 7,085 citations. Next come "Inverting the Classroom: A Gateway to Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment" (2,438) and "Subject pool recruitment procedures: organizing experiments with ORSEE" (2,396).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Economic Implications of Learning by Doing Kenneth Joseph Arrow · The Review of Economic Studies Jun 1962 7,085
2 Inverting the Classroom: A Gateway to Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment Maureen J. Lage, Glenn J. Platt, Michael Treglia · The Journal of Economic Education 2000 2,438
3 Subject pool recruitment procedures: organizing experiments with ORSEE Ben Greiner · Journal of the Economic Science Association Open access 6 May 2015 2,396
4 A Conceptual Model of Nontraditional Undergraduate Student Attrition John P. Bean, Barbara S. Metzner · Review of Educational Research Dec 1985 1,934
5 Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates Bruce Sacerdote · The Quarterly Journal of Economics May 2001 1,863
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Innovations in Educational Methods research done?

The largest centres of Innovations in Educational Methods research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Melbourne (Australia), New York (United States) and Washington D.C. (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 24 works
  2. 2 MelbourneAustralia 21 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 17 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 14 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 BeijingChina 12 works
  8. 8 AtlantaUnited States 12 works
  9. 9 TorontoCanada 11 works
  10. 10 BrisbaneAustralia 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Innovations in Educational Methods?

Among universities, judged by research, Indiana University and Swinburne University of Technology 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.

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
1Indiana UniversityUnited States 72.116.6%5.5×10 -11.6%
2Swinburne University of TechnologyAustralia 30.019.0%14.5×8 +253.8%

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 Innovations in Educational Methods, country by country

Is Innovations in Educational Methods research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Innovations in Educational Methods.

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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 Innovations in Educational Methods as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0086% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Innovations in Educational Methods 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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