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Media, Communication, and Education

Media, Communication, and Education is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 6.3k 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 explores the intersection of media, technology, communication, and society, with a focus on media ecology, literacy, orality, digital media, and their impact on cultural and educational practices. The papers delve into the evolution of communication in the age of globalization and the implications for various aspects of human interaction.

  • Media Ecology
  • Communication
  • Technology
  • Literacy
  • Society
  • Globalization
  • Orality
  • Digital Media
  • Cultural Studies
  • Education
Research works
6.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
633
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
37% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Media, Communication, and Education

Which countries lead Media, Communication, and Education research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (229 and 78 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 229 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 78 works
  3. 3 Brazil 50 works
  4. 4 Germany 49 works
  5. 5 Canada 44 works
  6. 6 Italy 40 works
  7. 7 China 38 works
  8. 8 India 31 works
  9. 9 France 29 works
  10. 10 Indonesia 26 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 States: 37.3%United Kingdom: 12.7%Brazil: 8.2%Germany: 8.0%6 others listed: 33.9%37%largest
United States229 · 37.3%United Kingdom78 · 12.7%Brazil50 · 8.2%Germany49 · 8.0%6 others listed208 · 33.9%

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

Which institutions lead Media, Communication, and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Toronto publishes the most Media, Communication, and Education research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Oxford.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of TorontoCanada 10 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  3. 3 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 7 works
  4. 4 University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 6 works
  5. 5 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 5 works
  6. 6 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 5 works
  7. 7 Film IndependentUnited States 5 works
  8. 8 University of LagosNigeria 5 works
  9. 9 University of TurinItaly 4 works
  10. 10 University of ArizonaUnited States 4 works

Who are the leading researchers in Media, Communication, and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Media, Communication, and Education include Herbert A. Simon, Noam Chomsky and Norman K. Denzin.

  1. 1 Herbert A. Simon United States 179k citations
  2. 2 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  3. 3 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  4. 4 Bruno Latour France 129k 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 Media, Communication, and Education?

The most cited paper in Media, Communication, and Education is "Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity" (John Easton Law, 1992), with 3,226 citations. Next come "Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties" (2,866) and "Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1" (2,449).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity John Easton Law · Systemic Practice and Action Research Aug 1992 3,226
2 Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties Sherry B. Ortner · Comparative Studies in Society and History 1984 2,866
3 Sequencing in Conversational Openings 1 Emanuel A. Schegloff · American Anthropologist Dec 1968 2,449
4 DECONSTRUCTING THE MAP J. B. Harley · Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization Open access Jun 1989 2,119
5 The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Ann Forsyth · Journal of Planning Education and Research Dec 1999 1,811
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Where is Media, Communication, and Education research done?

The largest centres of Media, Communication, and Education research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Moscow (Russia) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  2. 2 TorontoCanada 14 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 12 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 12 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 10 works
  7. 7 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 9 works
  8. 8 OxfordUnited Kingdom 8 works
  9. 9 LjubljanaSlovenia 8 works
  10. 10 São PauloBrazil 7 works
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Where is the best place to study Media, Communication, and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Toronto 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.

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 TorontoCanada 0.02.8%5.5×10 -21.0%

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 Media, Communication, and Education, country by country

Is Media, Communication, and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025.

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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 Media, Communication, and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0045% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Media, Communication, and Education0.0046% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Media, Communication, 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.

still counting5%10%15%Media, Communication, and Education9.7% 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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