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Parental Involvement in Education

Parental Involvement in Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 23k 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 influence of parental involvement, socioeconomic factors, and family engagement on student achievement. It delves into topics such as the impact of homework, school-community partnerships, cultural capital, and urban education on academic performance. The research emphasizes the significance of parental engagement in shaping educational outcomes.

  • Parental Involvement
  • Student Achievement
  • Family Engagement
  • Education
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Homework
  • School-Community Partnerships
  • Cultural Capital
  • Urban Education
  • Academic Performance
Research works
23k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Parental Involvement in Education

Which countries lead Parental Involvement in Education research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 524 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.7k works
  2. 2 China 524 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 262 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 218 works
  5. 5 Philippines 190 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 184 works
  7. 7 Australia 165 works
  8. 8 Canada 163 works
  9. 9 India 119 works
  10. 10 Germany 118 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: 46.4%China: 14.5%Türkiye: 7.2%United Kingdom: 6.0%6 others listed: 25.9%46%largest
United States1,679 · 46.4%China524 · 14.5%Türkiye262 · 7.2%United Kingdom218 · 6.0%6 others listed939 · 25.9%

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

Which institutions lead Parental Involvement in Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Beijing Normal University publishes the most Parental Involvement in Education research, followed by Education University of Hong Kong and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 39 works
  2. 2 Education University of Hong KongChina 32 works
  3. 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 30 works
  4. 4 University of VirginiaUnited States 27 works
  5. 5 University of ChicagoUnited States 21 works
  6. 6 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 21 works
  7. 7 University of Hong KongChina 21 works
  8. 8 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 20 works
  9. 9 New York UniversityUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 20 works

Who are the leading researchers in Parental Involvement in Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Parental Involvement in Education include Richard M. Ryan, Albert Bandura and Edward L. Deci.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 Albert Bandura United States 370k citations
  3. 3 Edward L. Deci United States 325k citations
  4. 4 Andrea C. Tricco Canada 258k citations
  5. 5 Dorret Irene Boomsma Netherlands 186k citations
  6. 6 Michael L. Rutter United Kingdom 163k 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 Parental Involvement in Education?

The most cited paper in Parental Involvement in Education is "School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the Evidence" (Jennifer A. Fredricks, Phyllis C. Blumenfeld, Alison H. Paris, 2004), with 12,369 citations. Next come "The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions" (8,717) and "School readiness and later achievement." (5,447).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the Evidence Jennifer A. Fredricks, Phyllis C. Blumenfeld, Alison H. Paris · Review of Educational Research Mar 2004 12,369
2 The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions Joseph A. Durlak, Roger P. Weissberg, Allison B. Dymnicki et al. · Child Development Review 2011 8,717
3 School readiness and later achievement. Greg J. Duncan, Chantelle Dowsett, Amy Claessens et al. · Developmental Psychology Nov 2007 5,447
4 Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: A Meta-Analytic Review of Research Selcuk R. Sirin · Review of Educational Research Sep 2005 4,713
5 Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement Steven G. Rivkin, Eric Alan Hanushek, John F. Kain · Econometrica 4 Feb 2005 4,426
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Where is Parental Involvement in Education research done?

The largest centres of Parental Involvement in Education research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), Ankara (Türkiye) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tai Po and Cebu City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 83 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 65 works
  3. 3 AnkaraTürkiye 53 works
  4. 4 ShanghaiChina 48 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 IstanbulTürkiye 41 works
  7. 7 LondonUnited Kingdom 40 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 38 works
  9. 9 MelbourneAustralia 38 works
  10. 10 Hong KongChina 36 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Tai PoCN · 32.9 works40×
  2. Cebu CityPH · 20.3 works27×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Parental Involvement in Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Parental Involvement in Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Beijing Normal University, Chinese University of Hong Kong 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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Beijing Normal UniversityChina 82.322.7%10.5×39 +62.1%
2Chinese University of Hong KongChina 77.229.5%5.2×18 +21.3%
3Education University of Hong KongChina 75.819.3%46.8×32 +28.8%
4University of Hong KongChina 74.028.1%4.8×21 +8.8%
5University of VirginiaUnited States 73.025.8%9.2×27 -23.2%
6Mississippi State UniversityUnited States 65.834.1%13.1×12 +22.9%
7East China Normal UniversityChina 64.620.4%8.4×19 +37.6%
8University of OsloNorway 61.427.0%3.4×10 +29.1%
9University of MacauChina 61.027.0%6.4×10 +2.6%
10University of ChicagoUnited States 59.49.9%5.3×21 +33.9%

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 Parental Involvement in Education, country by country

Is Parental Involvement in Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Parental Involvement in 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 Parental Involvement in Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.019% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Parental Involvement in 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%Parental Involvement in Education10.3% 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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