Literacy, Media, and Education

Literacy, Media, and Education is a research topic within Literature and Literary Theory. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 intersection of literacy, technology, and culture, focusing on the development and implications of multimodal literacy in education and society. It delves into topics such as new literacies, media literacy, digital literacy, participatory culture, youth engagement, visual literacy, critical media literacy, technology integration, and innovative pedagogical practices.

Multimodal Literacy
New Literacies
Media Literacy
Digital Literacy
Participatory Culture
Youth Engagement
Visual Literacy
Critical Media Literacy
Technology Integration
Pedagogical Practices

Research works: 15k
In the world top 10%: 1.5k
Top-10% rate: 10.1%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +35%
Largest producer: United States

Literacy, Media, and Education

Which countries lead Literacy, Media, and Education research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1k and 401 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1k works
2 Indonesia 401 works
3 Türkiye 245 works
4 China 211 works
5 United Kingdom 208 works
6 Australia 178 works
7 Canada 170 works
8 India 134 works
9 Spain 130 works
10 Brazil 114 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 States1,007 · 36.0%Indonesia401 · 14.3%Türkiye245 · 8.8%China211 · 7.5%6 others listed934 · 33.4%

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

Which institutions lead Literacy, Media, and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Nanyang Technological University publishes the most Literacy, Media, and Education research, followed by Indonesia University of Education and University of British Columbia.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 20 works
2 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 20 works
3 University of British ColumbiaCanada 19 works
4 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 17 works
5 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 15 works
6 Columbia UniversityUnited States 14 works
7 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 14 works
8 State University of MalangIndonesia 14 works
9 Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia 14 works
10 Monash UniversityAustralia 13 works

What are the most cited papers in Literacy, Media, and Education?

The most cited paper in Literacy, Media, and Education is "Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education" (Henry Armand Giroux, Joe L. Kincheloe, 1992), with 2,357 citations. Next come "Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space" (1,680) and "“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning" (1,489).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Border Crossings: Cultural Workers and the Politics of Education Henry Armand Giroux, Joe L. Kincheloe · Journal of Education	1992	2,357
2	Developing a Sociocritical Literacy in the Third Space Kris D. Gutiérrez · Reading Research Quarterly	2 Apr 2008	1,680
3	“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis · Pedagogies An International Journal	6 Aug 2009	1,489
4	Digital Storytelling: A Powerful Technology Tool for the 21st Century Classroom Bernard Robin · Theory Into Practice	26 Jun 2008	1,476
5	The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting Daniel M. Bell Jr. · DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)	1973	1,379

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Where is Literacy, Media, and Education research done?

The largest centres of Literacy, Media, and Education research in 2022-now are New York (United States), London (United Kingdom), Ankara (Türkiye) and Melbourne (Australia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 New YorkUnited States 45 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 44 works
3 AnkaraTürkiye 42 works
4 MelbourneAustralia 40 works
5 JakartaIndonesia 36 works
6 BandungIndonesia 34 works
7 IstanbulTürkiye 30 works
8 SydneyAustralia 30 works
9 BeijingChina 29 works
10 BrisbaneAustralia 28 works

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Where is the best place to study Literacy, Media, and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University and Education University of Hong Kong 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.

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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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	University of Hong KongChina	79.6	46.0%	3.6×	13	+72.3%
2	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	79.0	27.7%	6.7×	20	+7.3%
3	Education University of Hong KongChina	74.2	37.6%	20.1×	11	+382.2%
4	University of British ColumbiaCanada	60.1	24.3%	4.1×	19	-13.6%
5	Monash UniversityAustralia	59.9	24.9%	3.6×	14	+1.0%
6	The University of SydneyAustralia	55.2	20.0%	2.8×	13	+76.5%
7	Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia	52.8	7.5%	5.2×	20	+89.2%
8	Arizona State UniversityUnited States	51.0	34.9%	4.4×	11	-27.6%
9	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	49.7	37.4%	2.4×	8	+180.7%
10	Georgia State UniversityUnited States	49.6	15.1%	10.3×	12	+128.4%
11	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	48.3	9.6%	3.5×	17	+35.4%
12	The University of MelbourneAustralia	48.1	21.5%	2.7×	11	+12.6%
13	University of OsloNorway	47.8	29.7%	3.5×	8	-15.5%
14	University of AucklandNew Zealand	47.1	25.2%	4.3×	9	+91.4%
15	Columbia UniversityUnited States	46.0	5.7%	3.4×	14	+43.4%
16	Stockholm UniversitySweden	45.2	9.4%	7.9×	10	+24.6%
17	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	44.3	19.7%	2.1×	13	-41.1%
18	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	44.3	15.1%	3.4×	11	+29.1%
19	University of CalgaryCanada	44.1	23.3%	4.9×	13	-32.2%
20	University of South AustraliaAustralia	43.7	7.5%	13.7×	11	+265.5%
21	University of WaikatoNew Zealand	42.6	20.3%	20.8×	9	+110.9%
22	Griffith UniversityAustralia	40.3	21.0%	5.3×	8	+191.7%
23	State University of SemarangIndonesia	39.3	8.2%	4.5×	13	+307.9%
24	Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia	38.8	2.7%	5.1×	15	+98.3%
25	University of South FloridaUnited States	38.4	18.8%	5.5×	9	+31.0%
26	Texas Tech UniversityUnited States	37.5	11.6%	6.2×	10	+119.9%
27	State University of MalangIndonesia	36.7	4.1%	3.8×	14	+267.5%
28	Universitat de ValènciaSpain	36.7	6.4%	5.2×	11	+119.2%
29	York UniversityCanada	36.6	1.9%	8.4×	12	+25.1%
30	Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia	36.5	8.5%	5.3×	12	+516.4%
31	University of HelsinkiFinland	33.9	12.8%	3.5×	9	-5.7%
32	Michigan State UniversityUnited States	33.8	23.8%	3.2×	9	-43.5%
33	Universitas Muhammadiyah SidoarjoIndonesia	32.1	3.0%	8.5×	14	-
34	Indiana UniversityUnited States	31.0	14.3%	2.7×	10	-25.1%
35	Deakin UniversityAustralia	29.9	20.0%	5.0×	8	-66.0%
36	Gazi UniversityTürkiye	29.5	4.2%	5.2×	9	+58.6%
37	University of Tennessee at KnoxvilleUnited States	28.6	6.5%	5.7×	9	+50.0%
38	University of AlbertaCanada	28.2	0.9%	3.7×	12	-4.9%
39	Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States	28.0	14.0%	2.5×	10	-14.7%
40	Universiti Teknologi MARAMalaysia	26.5	2.0%	3.6×	10	+441.2%
41	National University of UzbekistanUzbekistan	19.9	2.1%	14.6×	8	-
42	Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan	18.3	4.5%	42.5×	8	-
43	University of TorontoCanada	17.7	6.4%	1.2×	9	-52.0%

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, Media, and Education, country by country

Is Literacy, Media, and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 35% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Literacy, Media, and Education.

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

Fractional works of Literacy, Media, and Education 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.

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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Which countries lead Literacy, Media, and Education research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Literacy, Media, and Education research?

By volume, 2022-now

What are the most cited papers in Literacy, Media, and Education?

Where is Literacy, Media, and Education research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Literacy, Media, and Education?

Is Literacy, Media, and Education research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion