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Literacy and Educational Practices

Literacy and Educational Practices is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 14k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores reading habits, literacy education, and the impact of digital learning on student achievement. It delves into topics such as booktubers, informal learning trends, metacognitive strategies for reading comprehension, and the promotion of literature. The papers also discuss the influence of educational technology on youth reading trends and the development of digital literacy skills.

  • Reading Habits
  • Literacy Education
  • Digital Learning
  • Booktubers
  • Student Achievement
  • Informal Learning
  • Metacognitive Strategies
  • Literature Promotion
  • Educational Technology
  • Youth Reading Trends
Research works
14k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.4k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Literacy and Educational Practices

Which countries lead Literacy and Educational Practices research?

By volume, Spain and Ecuador publish the most (960 and 481 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 960 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 481 works
  3. 3 Mexico 362 works
  4. 4 Colombia 298 works
  5. 5 Brazil 220 works
  6. 6 Peru 214 works
  7. 7 Argentina 206 works
  8. 8 Chile 200 works
  9. 9 United States 123 works
  10. 10 ?? 96 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: 30.4%Ecuador: 15.2%Mexico: 11.4%Colombia: 9.4%6 others listed: 33.5%30%largest
Spain960 · 30.4%Ecuador481 · 15.2%Mexico362 · 11.4%Colombia298 · 9.4%6 others listed1,060 · 33.5%

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

Which institutions lead Literacy and Educational Practices research?

By volume in 2022-now, Ação Educativa publishes the most Literacy and Educational Practices research, followed by Universidad Estatal de Milagro and Universidad César Vallejo.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ação EducativaBrazil 116 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 76 works
  3. 3 Universidad César VallejoPeru 58 works
  4. 4 Universidad Bolivariana del Ecuador 58 works
  5. 5 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 55 works
  6. 6 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 51 works
  7. 7 Universidad de GranadaSpain 46 works
  8. 8 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 42 works
  9. 9 National University of San MarcosPeru 41 works
  10. 10 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Literacy and Educational Practices?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Literacy and Educational Practices include Michel Foucault, Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget.

  1. 1 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 Jean Piaget Switzerland 104k 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 Literacy and Educational Practices?

The most cited paper in Literacy and Educational Practices is "A Cognitive Analysis of Problems of Comprehension in a Learning of Mathematics" (Raymond Duval, 2006), with 1,317 citations. Next come "Added Value of Dialogic Parent–Child Book Readings: A Meta-Analysis" (966) and "Closing the gap: Addressing the vocabulary needs of English‐language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms" (747).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Cognitive Analysis of Problems of Comprehension in a Learning of Mathematics Raymond Duval · Educational Studies in Mathematics Feb 2006 1,317
2 Added Value of Dialogic Parent–Child Book Readings: A Meta-Analysis Suzanne E. Mol, Adriana G. Bus, Maria T. de Jong et al. · Early Education and Development Review 5 Feb 2008 966
3 Closing the gap: Addressing the vocabulary needs of English‐language learners in bilingual and mainstream classrooms María S. Carlo, Diane L. August, Barry McLaughlin et al. · Reading Research Quarterly 6 Apr 2004 747
4 Relations of the home literacy environment (HLE) to the development of reading‐related abilities: A one‐year longitudinal study Stephen R. Burgess, Steven Alan Hecht, Christopher J. Lonigan · Reading Research Quarterly 12 Oct 2002 700
5 Imagery and Text: A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing Mark Sadoski, Allan Paivio 3 Nov 2000 532
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Literacy and Educational Practices research done?

The largest centres of Literacy and Educational Practices research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Guayaquil (Ecuador) and Bogotá (Colombia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Durán, Latacunga and La Libertad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 162 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 132 works
  3. 3 GuayaquilEcuador 116 works
  4. 4 BogotáColombia 107 works
  5. 5 Mexico CityMexico 106 works
  6. 6 LimaPeru 88 works
  7. 7 SantiagoChile 80 works
  8. 8 Buenos AiresArgentina 78 works
  9. 9 Panama CityPanama 69 works
  10. 10 TrujilloPeru 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Durán58.2 works180×
  2. LatacungaEC · 28.8 works137×
  3. La LibertadEC · 24.1 works105×
  4. MantaEC · 23.9 works88×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Literacy and Educational Practices than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Literacy and Educational Practices?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad César Vallejo, University of Alicante and Universidad Indoamérica 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 18.3%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidad Indoamér…Universidad César Va…Universidad de OviedoUniversity of Alicante
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
1Universidad César VallejoPeru 81.027.4%67.6×58 +113.9%
2University of AlicanteSpain 74.319.5%44.2×41 +32.5%
3Universidad IndoaméricaEcuador 70.429.7%68.1×15 +304.5%
4Universidad de OviedoSpain 69.020.0%25.0×20 +40.7%
5Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 67.811.5%214.8×76 +1880.0%
6Universitat de ValènciaSpain 66.015.5%31.6×54 +5.2%
7Universidad de GranadaSpain 65.516.4%25.8×46 -4.7%
8Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 65.520.2%24.7×34 +57.3%
9Universidad de MálagaSpain 61.713.5%34.4×34 +44.7%
10Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 61.09.3%18.2×51 +17.8%

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 Literacy and Educational Practices, country by country

Is Literacy and Educational Practices research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Literacy and Educational Practices.

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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 Literacy and Educational Practices as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Literacy and Educational Practices0.017% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Literacy and Educational Practices 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%Literacy and Educational Practices9.7% 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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