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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. 12.5% 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%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
12.5%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+33%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume, Germany and Poland publish the most (1.3k and 236 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Germany 1.3k works
  2. 2 Poland 236 works
  3. 3 Austria 166 works
  4. 4 Switzerland 155 works
  5. 5 United States 126 works
  6. 6 Italy 108 works
  7. 7 Brazil 93 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 84 works
  9. 9 Russia 77 works
  10. 10 Ukraine 62 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: 10.0%Austria: 7.0%Switzerland: 6.5%6 others listed: 23.2%53%largest
Germany1,264 · 53.3%Poland236 · 10.0%Austria166 · 7.0%Switzerland155 · 6.5%6 others listed549 · 23.2%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022–2025, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education publishes the most Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research, followed by University of Vienna and University of Cologne.

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in EducationGermany 44 works
  2. 2 University of ViennaAustria 33 works
  3. 3 University of CologneGermany 29 works
  4. 4 Zurich University of Teacher EducationSwitzerland 28 works
  5. 5 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 27 works
  6. 6 TU Dortmund UniversityGermany 27 works
  7. 7 University of Duisburg-EssenGermany 25 works
  8. 8 Universität HamburgGermany 25 works
  9. 9 Paderborn UniversityGermany 24 works
  10. 10 University of MünsterGermany 23 works

Where is Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research in 2022–2025 are Vienna (Austria), Berlin (Germany), 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.

Largest cities, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Vienna Austria 84 works
  2. 2 Berlin Germany 83 works
  3. 3 Frankfurt am Main Germany 72 works
  4. 4 Cologne Germany 63 works
  5. 5 Zurich Switzerland 52 works
  6. 6 Munich Germany 50 works
  7. 7 Hamburg Germany 47 works
  8. 8 Warsaw Poland 38 works
  9. 9 Mainz Germany 37 works
  10. 10 Essen Germany 35 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PaderbornDE · 25.8 works51×
← 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, University of Cologne, Zurich University of Teacher Education and University of Vienna 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 18.2%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →University of Cologne: 30, 15.6%Zurich University of Teacher Education: 28, 34.4%University of Vienna: 33, 11.7%Universität Innsbruck: 18, 10.9%Universität Hamburg: 25, 22.5%Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg: 17, 11.0%Ruhr University Bochum: 16, 29.0%University of Salzburg: 9, 19.7%Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 21, 14.8%Bielefeld University: 22, 12.4%Zurich University of…University of CologneUniversity of ViennaUniversität Innsbruck
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 University of CologneGermany 67.415.6%30.5×30 +168.8%
2 Zurich University of Teacher EducationSwitzerland 64.034.4%259.6×28 +24.6%
3 University of ViennaAustria 62.711.7%22.5×33 +67.9%
4 Universität InnsbruckAustria 62.710.9%20.7×18 +222.1%
5 Universität HamburgGermany 62.622.5%15.1×25 +59.3%
6 Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGermany 59.811.0%11.9×17 +237.9%
7 Ruhr University BochumGermany 59.729.0%13.2×16 +74.0%
8 University of SalzburgAustria 59.019.7%25.9×9 +220.2%
9 Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany 58.814.8%19.5×21 +85.1%
10 Bielefeld UniversityGermany 58.712.4%30.5×22 +141.1%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Linguistic Education and Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 33% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2019. The fastest-growing topics are Linguistic Education and Pedagogy.

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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.

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.