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Religious Education and Schools

Religious Education and Schools is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 19k 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 complex intersection of religious education, diversity, and multiculturalism in schools, addressing issues of cultural identity, inclusion, secularism, and citizenship. The focus is on understanding and navigating the challenges and opportunities presented by religious diversity in educational settings.

  • Religious Education
  • Diversity
  • Schools
  • Cultural
  • Identity
  • Multiculturalism
  • Ethnic
  • Inclusion
  • Secularism
  • Citizenship
Research works
19k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-4%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Religious Education and Schools

Which countries lead Religious Education and Schools research?

By volume, the United States and the United Kingdom publish the most (595 and 293 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 595 works
  2. 2 United Kingdom 293 works
  3. 3 Germany 234 works
  4. 4 Indonesia 185 works
  5. 5 Australia 115 works
  6. 6 France 93 works
  7. 7 Norway 91 works
  8. 8 Canada 82 works
  9. 9 Hungary 77 works
  10. 10 Netherlands 76 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: 32.3%United Kingdom: 15.9%Germany: 12.7%Indonesia: 10.0%6 others listed: 29.0%32%largest
United States595 · 32.3%United Kingdom293 · 15.9%Germany234 · 12.7%Indonesia185 · 10.0%6 others listed535 · 29.0%

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

Which institutions lead Religious Education and Schools research?

By volume in 2022-now, Woodbury University publishes the most Religious Education and Schools research, followed by University of Helsinki and Australian Catholic University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 33 works
  2. 2 University of HelsinkiFinland 28 works
  3. 3 Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia 25 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 21 works
  5. 5 Boston CollegeUnited States 20 works
  6. 6 University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 18 works
  7. 7 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 18 works
  8. 8 Institut Agama Islam Negeri BengkuluIndonesia 17 works
  9. 9 University of ViennaAustria 17 works
  10. 10 University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in Religious Education and Schools?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Religious Education and Schools include Pierre Bourdıeu and Robert B. Jackson.

  1. 1 Pierre Bourdıeu France 268k citations
  2. 2 Robert B. Jackson United States 149k 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 Religious Education and Schools?

The most cited paper in Religious Education and Schools is "Religion in the Public Sphere" (Jürgen Habermas, 2006), with 1,447 citations. Next come "Ethnicity without groups" (1,303) and "Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory" (1,294).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Religion in the Public Sphere Jürgen Habermas · European Journal of Philosophy 14 Mar 2006 1,447
2 Ethnicity without groups Rogers Brubaker · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 11 Nov 2004 1,303
3 Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory B. Parekh · Ethnicities Open access Mar 2001 1,294
4 Diversity, Group Identity, and Citizenship Education in a Global Age James A. Banks · Educational Researcher Apr 2008 1,142
5 What is Education For? On Good Education, Teacher Judgement, and Educational Professionalism Gert Biesta · European Journal of Education 8 Jan 2015 873
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Religious Education and Schools research done?

The largest centres of Religious Education and Schools research in 2022-now are London (United Kingdom), Budapest (Hungary), Oslo (Norway) and Burbank (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Burbank.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LondonUnited Kingdom 59 works
  2. 2 BudapestHungary 45 works
  3. 3 OsloNorway 43 works
  4. 4 BurbankUnited States 33 works
  5. 5 ViennaAustria 33 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 31 works
  7. 7 ParisFrance 31 works
  8. 8 HelsinkiFinland 30 works
  9. 9 BostonUnited States 28 works
  10. 10 DublinIreland 25 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. BurbankUS · 33.0 works261×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Religious Education and Schools than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Religious Education and Schools?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Helsinki, University of Birmingham and University of Oxford 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 15.88%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Birmin…University of HelsinkiUniversity of OxfordAustralian Catholic …
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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 HelsinkiFinland 92.224.3%14.6×28 +9.9%
2University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom 81.128.6%9.8×17 +21.2%
3University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 61.313.2%4.7×18 +16.7%
4Australian Catholic UniversityAustralia 60.87.4%88.7×25 +69.4%
5Queen's University BelfastUnited Kingdom 60.214.3%12.9×12 +3.7%
6University of GlasgowUnited Kingdom 59.812.9%10.1×18 +6.3%
7University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 59.821.2%3.2×11 +18.5%
8University of OsloNorway 57.915.8%7.6×13 +12.7%
9Woodbury UniversityUnited States 57.28.6%2065.0×33 -
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 56.312.5%3.8×16 -7.6%

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 Religious Education and Schools, country by country

Is Religious Education and Schools research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 4% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2017.

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

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Religious Education and Schools0.013% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Religious Education and Schools 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%Religious Education and Schools9.9% 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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