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Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 20k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of neuroscience and education, focusing on bridging research findings with educational practice. It addresses topics such as neuromyths among teachers, brain-based learning approaches, the impact of emotions on learning, and the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration to inform educational reform.

  • Neuroscience
  • Education
  • Neuromyths
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Brain-Based Learning
  • Teacher Training
  • Emotions
  • Learning Styles
  • Educational Reform
  • Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Research works
20k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+31%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

Which countries lead Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (1.1k and 250 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 250 works
  3. 3 China 240 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 230 works
  5. 5 Brazil 228 works
  6. 6 India 228 works
  7. 7 Spain 214 works
  8. 8 Canada 120 works
  9. 9 Ecuador 120 works
  10. 10 Australia 116 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: 37.6%United Kingdom: 8.9%China: 8.6%Indonesia: 8.2%6 others listed: 36.7%38%largest
United States1,053 · 37.6%United Kingdom250 · 8.9%China240 · 8.6%Indonesia230 · 8.2%6 others listed1,026 · 36.7%

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

Which institutions lead Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research, followed by Islamic Azad University, Tehran and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 25 works
  2. 2 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 24 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 23 works
  4. 4 The University of SydneyAustralia 18 works
  5. 5 City University of New YorkUnited States 16 works
  6. 6 Harvard UniversityUnited States 16 works
  7. 7 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 16 works
  8. 8 University of PatrasGreece 15 works
  9. 9 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 15 works
  10. 10 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function include Richard M. Ryan, Karl John Friston and Dan J. Stein.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
  3. 3 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Bruce S. McEwen United States 216k citations
  6. 6 Fred H. Gage United States 201k 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 Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function?

The most cited paper in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function is "The Process of Education" (Jerome S. Bruner, Robert A. Lufburrow, 1960), with 4,468 citations. Next come "Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions" (4,052) and "DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN" (3,430).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Process of Education Jerome S. Bruner, Robert A. Lufburrow · American Journal of Physics 31 Dec 1960 4,468
2 Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions Jaak Panksepp 1998 4,052
3 DISCONNEXION SYNDROMES IN ANIMALS AND MAN Norman Geschwind · Brain 1965 3,430
4 Human memory : theory and practice Alan Baddeley 1990 3,037
5 Neuropsychological assessment, 3rd ed. Muriel D. Lezak 1995 2,827
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Where is Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research done?

The largest centres of Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), New York (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Beijing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guayaquil.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 65 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 63 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
  4. 4 BeijingChina 55 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 41 works
  6. 6 ParisFrance 38 works
  7. 7 Mexico CityMexico 35 works
  8. 8 MoscowRussia 32 works
  9. 9 GuayaquilEcuador 28 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 28 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuayaquilEC · 28.3 works11×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Patras, Beijing Normal University and University College London 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 18.93%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of PatrasUniversity College L…Beijing Normal Unive…Harvard University
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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
1University of PatrasGreece 81.040.3%13.2×15 +1308.3%
2Beijing Normal UniversityChina 59.426.8%4.4×15 +141.7%
3University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.530.0%1.9×13 +13.8%
4Harvard UniversityUnited States 52.616.1%1.2×16 +24.3%
5Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 52.19.5%3.4×24 +12.5%
6The University of SydneyAustralia 49.34.2%3.5×18 +400.3%
7University of ConnecticutUnited States 48.622.9%5.0×10 +66.8%
8University of IoanninaGreece 48.226.4%12.2×9 +494.0%
9University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 45.412.2%2.4×12 +76.3%
10City University of New YorkUnited States 45.10.9%7.1×16 +169.1%

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 Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function, country by country

Is Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 31% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function.

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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 Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function 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%Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function10.3% 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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