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Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education is a research topic within Philosophy. Science Explorer counts 8.2k 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 philosophical implications of pragmatism, with a focus on the works of Dewey, Peirce, and Rorty. It delves into topics such as democracy, semiotics, education, truth, and feminism within the framework of pragmatist philosophy.

  • Pragmatism
  • Philosophy
  • Dewey
  • Peirce
  • Democracy
  • Semiotics
  • Education
  • Rorty
  • Truth
  • Feminism
Research works
8.2k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
835
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
44% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education

Which countries lead Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (345 and 93 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 345 works
  2. 2 Brazil 93 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 66 works
  4. 4 Germany 63 works
  5. 5 Italy 50 works
  6. 6 Canada 48 works
  7. 7 China 40 works
  8. 8 France 31 works
  9. 9 Spain 24 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 19 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: 44.4%Brazil: 11.9%United Kingdom: 8.4%Germany: 8.1%6 others listed: 27.2%44%largest
United States345 · 44.4%Brazil93 · 11.9%United Kingdom66 · 8.4%Germany63 · 8.1%6 others listed212 · 27.2%

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

Which institutions lead Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo publishes the most Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research, followed by University of Helsinki and University of Bologna.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 20 works
  2. 2 University of HelsinkiFinland 11 works
  3. 3 University of BolognaItaly 11 works
  4. 4 University of TorontoCanada 10 works
  5. 5 City University of New YorkUnited States 8 works
  6. 6 Film IndependentUnited States 8 works
  7. 7 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 7 works
  8. 8 Indiana UniversityUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 University of ChicagoUnited States 6 works
  10. 10 York UniversityCanada 6 works

Who are the leading researchers in Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education include Anselm L. Strauss, Yvonna S. Lincoln and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
  2. 2 Yvonna S. Lincoln United States 148k citations
  3. 3 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  4. 4 Norman K. Denzin United States 130k citations
  5. 5 Bruno Latour France 129k citations
  6. 6 Richard Smith United States 115k 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 Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education?

The most cited paper in Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education is "Experience and Education" (JOHN M. DEWEY, 1986), with 13,467 citations. Next come "58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity" (3,743) and "Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will Be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice?" (2,784).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Experience and Education JOHN M. DEWEY · The Educational Forum Open access 30 Sep 1986 13,467
2 58. Contingency, Irony and Solidarity Richard M. Rorty · Princeton University Press eBooks Book chapter 29 Jul 2015 3,743
3 Equity, Equality, and Need: What Determines Which Value Will Be Used as the Basis of Distributive Justice? Morton Deutsch · Journal of Social Issues Jul 1975 2,784
4 Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be? Sally Haslanger · Noûs Mar 2000 1,558
5 Defining Quality Lee Pak Ting Harvey, Diana Green · Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education 1993 1,275
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Where is Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research done?

The largest centres of Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), New York (United States), Toronto (Canada) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in São Paulo and New York.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 30 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 21 works
  3. 3 TorontoCanada 17 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 15 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 12 works
  6. 6 HelsinkiFinland 11 works
  7. 7 BolognaItaly 11 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 10 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 10 works
  10. 10 Los AngelesUnited States 10 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. São PauloBR · 30.2 works5.1×
  2. New YorkUS · 21.2 works3.0×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Bologna, University of Toronto and University of Helsinki score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 14.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of BolognaUniversity of TorontoUniversity of HelsinkiPontifícia Universid…
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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.

Citation 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 BolognaItaly 71.722.0%14.2×11 +39.6%
2University of TorontoCanada 66.519.6%5.5×10 +32.6%
3University of HelsinkiFinland 65.415.1%17.4×11 +17.1%
4Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São PauloBrazil 57.211.0%113.8×20 +80.8%
5City University of New YorkUnited States 23.95.5%16.6×8 +150.0%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education, country by country

Is Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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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 Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0041% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Pragmatism in Philosophy 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 counting10%20%Pragmatism in Philosophy 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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