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Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century

Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century is a research topic within Demography. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the emergence of knowledge societies in the 21st century, focusing on topics such as Big Data, education, information and communication technologies (ICT), innovation, technology integration, digital transformation, teacher training, social impact, ethical implications, and interdisciplinary research. The papers cover a wide range of issues related to the intersection of knowledge, technology, and society.

  • Big Data
  • Education
  • Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
  • Innovation
  • Technology Integration
  • Digital Transformation
  • Teacher Training
  • Social Impact
  • Ethical Implications
  • Interdisciplinary Research
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century

Which countries lead Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research?

By volume, Mexico and Ecuador publish the most (563 and 528 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 563 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 528 works
  3. 3 Colombia 443 works
  4. 4 Spain 326 works
  5. 5 Brazil 297 works
  6. 6 Peru 254 works
  7. 7 ?? 124 works
  8. 8 United States 121 works
  9. 9 Argentina 109 works
  10. 10 Panama 71 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.

Mexico: 19.9%Ecuador: 18.6%Colombia: 15.6%Spain: 11.5%6 others listed: 34.4%20%largest
Mexico563 · 19.9%Ecuador528 · 18.6%Colombia443 · 15.6%Spain326 · 11.5%6 others listed976 · 34.4%

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

Which institutions lead Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ação Educativa publishes the most Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research, followed by Tecnológico Nacional de México and Universidad Estatal de Milagro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ação EducativaBrazil 81 works
  2. 2 Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoMexico 70 works
  3. 3 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 69 works
  4. 4 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 65 works
  5. 5 CHDI FoundationUnited States 57 works
  6. 6 University of GuayaquilEcuador 52 works
  7. 7 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 48 works
  8. 8 Universidad César VallejoPeru 41 works
  9. 9 Universidad Autónoma del Estado de HidalgoMexico 38 works
  10. 10 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 35 works

Who are the leading researchers in Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century include Francisco Herrera.

  1. 1 Francisco Herrera Spain 141k 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 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century?

The most cited paper in Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century is "Impacto de las TIC en la educación: Retos y Perspectivas" (Ronald M. Hernández, 2017), with 378 citations. Next come "TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES IN FOSSIL HOMINIDS" (323) and "Methodology for systematic literature review applied to engineering and education" (278).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Impacto de las TIC en la educación: Retos y Perspectivas Ronald M. Hernández · Propósitos y Representaciones Open access 10 Apr 2017 378
2 TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES IN FOSSIL HOMINIDS Erik M. Mayr · Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 1950 323
3 Methodology for systematic literature review applied to engineering and education Pablo Vicente Torres-Carrión, Carina Soledad González González, Silvana Vanesa Aciar et al. Review Apr 2018 278
4 La Inteligencia Artificial como recurso educativo durante la formación inicial del profesorado Desirée Ayuso del Puerto, Prudencia Gutiérrez Esteban · RIED Revista Iberoamericana de Educación a Distancia Open access 21 Apr 2022 202
5 La llegada de la inteligencia artificial a la educación Raúl Darío Moreno Padilla · Revista de Investigación en Tecnologías de la Información Open access Dec 2019 188
All 102 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research done?

The largest centres of Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research in 2022-now are Mexico City (Mexico), Bogotá (Colombia), Guayaquil (Ecuador) and São Paulo (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Guaranda and Tunja.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico CityMexico 175 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 158 works
  3. 3 GuayaquilEcuador 139 works
  4. 4 São PauloBrazil 120 works
  5. 5 LimaPeru 98 works
  6. 6 Panama CityPanama 70 works
  7. 7 MadridSpain 68 works
  8. 8 Durán 65 works
  9. 9 TrujilloPeru 65 works
  10. 10 New YorkUnited States 61 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán65.4 works222×
  2. GuarandaEC · 22.4 works165×
  3. TunjaCO · 38.9 works103×
  4. PortoviejoEC · 50.0 works90×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Guayaquil, Universidad Técnica de Manabí and Universidad Estatal de Milagro 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 16.23%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Guayaq…Universidad Técnica …Universidad César Va…Universidad Estatal …
above the meannear itbelow it

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 GuayaquilEcuador 72.216.6%112.3×52 +54.6%
2Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 71.316.1%119.0×48 +135.8%
3Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 69.411.3%215.3×69 +530.9%
4Universidad César VallejoPeru 68.115.8%51.9×41 +221.2%
5Universidad Nacional de LojaEcuador 60.921.6%75.5×12 +148.5%
6Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 60.810.6%289.6×65 -
7Universidad Autónoma de SinaloaMexico 58.818.1%57.4×14 +312.6%
8Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 58.119.3%45.3×9 +473.4%
9University of LisbonPortugal 57.910.8%9.9×22 +159.8%
10Tecnológico de MonterreyMexico 57.822.1%10.7×8 -46.1%

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 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century, country by country

Is Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century.

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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 Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century 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%Knowledge Societies in the 21st Century9.6% 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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