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Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies

Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 12k research works in it since 1950. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the interplay between religion and media, examining their impact on social change, ethics, communication technology, cultural integration, youth subcultures, spirituality, resilience, and interreligious dialogue. It delves into the role of modern technologies, including digital media, in shaping religious attitudes and values, while also addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by the evolving media landscape in the context of diverse religious experiences.

  • Religion
  • Media
  • Social Change
  • Ethics
  • Communication Technology
  • Cultural Integration
  • Youth Subcultures
  • Spirituality
  • Resilience
  • Interreligious Dialogue
Research works
12k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.2k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-2%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Croatia
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies

Which countries lead Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research?

By volume, Croatia and Russia publish the most (422 and 418 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Croatia 422 works
  2. 2 Russia 418 works
  3. 3 Slovenia 400 works
  4. 4 United States 230 works
  5. 5 Poland 220 works
  6. 6 Slovakia 168 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 110 works
  8. 8 Czechia 87 works
  9. 9 Romania 75 works
  10. 10 Italy 62 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.

Croatia: 19.3%Russia: 19.1%Slovenia: 18.2%United States: 10.5%6 others listed: 32.9%19%largest
Croatia422 · 19.3%Russia418 · 19.1%Slovenia400 · 18.2%United States230 · 10.5%6 others listed721 · 32.9%

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

Which institutions lead Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Ljubljana publishes the most Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research, followed by Institut za filozofiju and University of Maribor.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 125 works
  2. 2 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 110 works
  3. 3 University of MariborSlovenia 101 works
  4. 4 University of ZagrebCroatia 69 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 61 works
  6. 6 Catholic University of CroatiaCroatia 55 works
  7. 7 University of SplitCroatia 47 works
  8. 8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 40 works
  9. 9 John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 32 works
  10. 10 University of PrimorskaSlovenia 31 works

Who are the leading researchers in Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies include James Thomas, Michel Foucault and James Wetzel.

  1. 1 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  2. 2 Michel Foucault France 208k citations
  3. 3 James Wetzel France 98k citations
  4. 4 S. Chattopadhyay India 78k 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, Philosophical, and Educational Studies?

The most cited paper in Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies is "The Protestant Ethic as a personality variable." (Herbert L. Mirels, James B. Garrett, 1971), with 625 citations. Next come ""Reinstatement" of the communicator in delayed measurement of opinion change." (436) and "Organization of memory: Quo vadis?" (379).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Protestant Ethic as a personality variable. Herbert L. Mirels, James B. Garrett · Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1971 625
2 "Reinstatement" of the communicator in delayed measurement of opinion change. Herbert C. Kelman, Carl I. Hovland · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology Jul 1953 436
3 Organization of memory: Quo vadis? Endel Tulving · The Cognitive Neurosciences 1995 379
4 Self-Transcendence as a Human Phenomenon VIKTOR EMIL FRANKL · Journal of Humanistic Psychology Apr 1966 316
5 Civilizational Incompetence: The Trap of Post-Communist Societies Piotr Sztompka · Zeitschrift für Soziologie Open access Apr 1993 242
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research done?

The largest centres of Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research in 2022-now are Zagreb (Croatia), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Moscow (Russia) and Maribor (Slovenia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Postojna, Koper and Maribor.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ZagrebCroatia 267 works
  2. 2 LjubljanaSlovenia 194 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 145 works
  4. 4 MariborSlovenia 114 works
  5. 5 BratislavaSlovakia 56 works
  6. 6 SplitCroatia 48 works
  7. 7 WarsawPoland 48 works
  8. 8 Saint PetersburgRussia 42 works
  9. 9 WeatherfordUnited States 40 works
  10. 10 PragueCzechia 39 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PostojnaSI · 26.7 works675×
  2. KoperSI · 33.5 works187×
  3. MariborSI · 113.7 works167×
  4. SplitHR · 47.9 works97×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Maribor, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and Comenius University Bratislava 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 18.12%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MariborConstantine the Phil…John Paul II Catholi…Comenius 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 MariborSlovenia 86.826.4%192.8×101 +205.7%
2Constantine the Philosopher University in NitraSlovakia 64.525.2%242.8×24 -37.7%
3Comenius University BratislavaSlovakia 62.118.2%47.8×24 +25.3%
4John Paul II Catholic University of LublinPoland 60.519.3%73.8×32 +10.9%
5University of LjubljanaSlovenia 59.58.9%118.1×125 -30.5%
6University of PrimorskaSlovenia 56.211.7%212.1×31 +139.4%
7University of WarsawPoland 55.432.6%9.6×13 -20.8%
8Weatherford CollegeUnited States 53.49.5%11.7×40 +75.2%
9Charles UniversityCzechia 49.719.9%8.8×11 +0.8%
10University of Silesia in KatowicePoland 47.79.5%19.7×10 +63.2%

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, Philosophical, and Educational Studies, country by country

Is Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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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, Philosophical, and Educational Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies 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, Philosophical, and Educational Studies9.7% 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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