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Rural and Ethnic Education

Rural and Ethnic Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1958. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the intersection of rural education, social movements, and public policies, with a focus on teacher training, pedagogy of alternation, and agroecology. It also delves into decolonial perspectives, land reform, and the role of community schools in promoting inclusive education for rural populations.

  • Rural Education
  • Social Movements
  • Pedagogy of Alternation
  • Teacher Training
  • Public Policies
  • Agroecology
  • Community Schools
  • Decolonial Perspectives
  • Land Reform
  • Educação do Campo
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1958
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Brazil
91% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Rural and Ethnic Education

Which countries lead Rural and Ethnic Education research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (5.3k and 170 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Brazil 5.3k works
  2. 2 United States 170 works
  3. 3 Portugal 97 works
  4. 4 Spain 67 works
  5. 5 Mexico 56 works
  6. 6 ?? 50 works
  7. 7 Paraguay 28 works
  8. 8 Argentina 24 works
  9. 9 Colombia 23 works
  10. 10 France 23 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.

Brazil: 90.7%United States: 2.9%Portugal: 1.7%Spain: 1.2%6 others listed: 3.5%91%largest
Brazil5,253 · 90.7%United States170 · 2.9%Portugal97 · 1.7%Spain67 · 1.2%6 others listed204 · 3.5%

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

Which institutions lead Rural and Ethnic Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Federal do Pará publishes the most Rural and Ethnic Education research, followed by Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 132 works
  2. 2 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 95 works
  3. 3 Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 85 works
  4. 4 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 85 works
  5. 5 Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 79 works
  6. 6 Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 71 works
  7. 7 Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil 68 works
  8. 8 Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil 68 works
  9. 9 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 67 works
  10. 10 Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 65 works

Who are the leading researchers in Rural and Ethnic Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Rural and Ethnic Education include A. Amorim.

  1. 1 A. Amorim Portugal 109k 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 Rural and Ethnic Education?

The most cited paper in Rural and Ethnic Education is "América Latina e o giro decolonial" (Luciana Ballestrin, 2013), with 551 citations. Next come "Procedimentos metodológicos na construção do conhecimento científico: a pesquisa bibliográfica" (465) and "PEDAGOGIA DAS ENCRUZILHADAS" (424).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 América Latina e o giro decolonial Luciana Ballestrin · Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política Open access 13 Jul 2013 551
2 Procedimentos metodológicos na construção do conhecimento científico: a pesquisa bibliográfica Telma Cristiane Sasso de Lima, Regina Célia Tamaso Mioto · Revista Katálysis Open access 2007 465
3 PEDAGOGIA DAS ENCRUZILHADAS Luiz Rufino Rodrigues · Periferia Open access 12 Apr 2018 424
4 Mulheres negras: moldando a teoria feminista bell hooks · Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política Open access Apr 2015 332
5 SUPERANDO O RACISMO NA ESCOLA Alexandre De Araújo Lima, Kaliny Custodio do Carmo, Maria Claudiane Cunha De Souza et al. Jul 2019 326
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Where is Rural and Ethnic Education research done?

The largest centres of Rural and Ethnic Education research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Belém (Brazil) and Salvador (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Vitória da Conquista, Cruz das Almas and Cáceres.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 São PauloBrazil 572 works
  2. 2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 327 works
  3. 3 BelémBrazil 214 works
  4. 4 SalvadorBrazil 186 works
  5. 5 BrasíliaBrazil 160 works
  6. 6 RecifeBrazil 160 works
  7. 7 FortalezaBrazil 148 works
  8. 8 Belo HorizonteBrazil 142 works
  9. 9 CuritibaBrazil 135 works
  10. 10 ManausBrazil 134 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Vitória da ConquistaBR · 58.5 works102×
  2. Cruz das AlmasBR · 35.8 works94×
  3. CáceresBR · 45.2 works89×
  4. Rio BrancoBR · 37.8 works87×
  5. MacapáBR · 36.5 works86×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Rural and Ethnic Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Rural and Ethnic Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Universidade de Brasília and Universidade Federal do Pará 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%10%20%mean 12.35%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universidade Federal…Universidade de Bras…Universidade Federal…Universidade Federal…
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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
1Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil 73.014.7%17.2×64 -0.5%
2Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil 69.214.6%24.4×70 +0.2%
3Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 67.510.1%66.0×132 +16.3%
4Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil 66.313.3%14.6×57 -5.6%
5Universidade de São PauloBrazil 63.910.4%6.5×67 +7.4%
6Universidade BrasilBrazil 62.915.4%17.2×9 +612.8%
7Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da BahiaBrazil 62.212.7%103.4×36 +16.9%
8Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil 61.910.2%72.9×79 +71.1%
9Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil 59.411.0%53.5×53 +8.5%
10Universidade Federal FluminenseBrazil 58.811.1%27.0×65 -5.3%

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 Rural and Ethnic Education, country by country

Is Rural and Ethnic Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Rural and Ethnic 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 Rural and Ethnic Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Rural and Ethnic Education0.025% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Rural and Ethnic 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%Rural and Ethnic Education9.5% 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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