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Linguistic Education and Pedagogy

Linguistic Education and Pedagogy is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 16k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% 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 language education, with a focus on German as a foreign language, teaching methods, intercultural competence, digital media in language learning, and the analysis of stereotypes. It explores language acquisition, linguistic competence, multilingualism, and cultural studies in the context of language education.

  • German as a Foreign Language
  • Language Learning
  • Intercultural Competence
  • Teaching Methods
  • Multilingualism
  • Cultural Studies
  • Digital Media
  • Linguistic Competence
  • Language Acquisition
  • Stereotype Analysis
Research works
16k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-9%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Germany
53% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistic Education and Pedagogy

Which countries lead Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume, Germany and Poland publish the most (1.4k and 244 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Germany 1.4k works
  2. 2 Poland 244 works
  3. 3 Austria 179 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 175 works
  5. 5 United States 136 works
  6. 6 Italy 123 works
  7. 7 Brazil 102 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 95 works
  9. 9 Russia 80 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 67 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.

Germany: 53.3%Poland: 9.5%Austria: 7.0%Switzerland: 6.8%6 others listed: 23.4%53%largest
Germany1,369 · 53.3%Poland244 · 9.5%Austria179 · 7.0%Switzerland175 · 6.8%6 others listed602 · 23.4%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Leibniz Association publishes the most Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research, followed by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences and University of Vienna.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Leibniz AssociationGermany 79 works
  2. 2 ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 34 works
  3. 3 University of ViennaAustria 33 works
  4. 4 University of CologneGermany 32 works
  5. 5 Universität HamburgGermany 30 works
  6. 6 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 29 works
  7. 7 University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 28 works
  8. 8 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 28 works
  9. 9 Paderborn UniversityGermany 27 works
  10. 10 University of MünsterGermany 25 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistic Education and Pedagogy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistic Education and Pedagogy include Noam Chomsky, Michael Tomasello and Christian Schmitt.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  2. 2 Michael Tomasello Germany 135k citations
  3. 3 Christian Schmitt France 126k citations
  4. 4 Geert H. Hofstede Netherlands 116k 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 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy?

The most cited paper in Linguistic Education and Pedagogy is "Buchbesprechungen" (Alexander Pundt, 2006), with 3,771 citations. Next come "Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. By W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982. x + 561" (1,250) and "PISA 2000: Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern im internationalen Vergleich" (925).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Buchbesprechungen Alexander Pundt · Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O Jul 2006 3,771
2 Frequency Analysis of English Usage: Lexicon and Grammar. By W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera with the assistance of Andrew W. Mackie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1982. x + 561 Robert Burchfield · Journal of English Linguistics Apr 1985 1,250
3 PISA 2000: Basiskompetenzen von Schülerinnen und Schülern im internationalen Vergleich Jürgen Baumert, Eckhard Klieme, Michael W. Neubrand et al. 2001 925
4 Intercultural communication: A discourse approach Stephen P. Banks · International Journal of Intercultural Relations 1996 891
5 Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application to German Helmut Schmid · Text, speech and language technology Book chapter 1999 829
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Where is Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Frankfurt am Main (Germany) and Cologne (Germany). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Paderborn and Mannheim.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BerlinGermany 90 works
  2. 2 ViennaAustria 86 works
  3. 3 Frankfurt am MainGermany 75 works
  4. 4 CologneGermany 66 works
  5. 5 ZurichSwitzerland 58 works
  6. 6 MunichGermany 53 works
  7. 7 HamburgGermany 52 works
  8. 8 WarsawPoland 40 works
  9. 9 EssenGermany 39 works
  10. 10 MainzGermany 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PaderbornDE · 28.2 works53×
  2. MannheimDE · 28.1 works37×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Linguistic Education and Pedagogy?

Among universities, judged by research, Universität Hamburg, University of Vienna and University of Cologne 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 14.04%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of CologneLeipzig UniversityUniversität HamburgUniversity of Vienna
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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
1Universität HamburgGermany 84.014.3%13.9×30 -40.7%
2University of ViennaAustria 77.710.4%22.8×33 -16.2%
3University of CologneGermany 77.217.1%25.8×32 -37.6%
4Leipzig UniversityGermany 75.716.0%22.8×23 +9.6%
5University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 75.215.7%24.6×28 -18.6%
6University of BremenGermany 74.915.7%26.0×18 +22.4%
7Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 74.29.8%21.0×22 +31.5%
8ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland 73.37.1%109.2×34 +207.8%
9Leibniz University HannoverGermany 72.015.0%19.3×16 +7.5%
10Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 70.819.3%8.0×20 -39.4%

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 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy, country by country

Is Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 9% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2019.

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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 Linguistic Education and Pedagogy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.014% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Linguistic Education and Pedagogy0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistic Education and Pedagogy 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%Linguistic Education and Pedagogy9.9% 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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