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School Choice and Performance

School Choice and Performance is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 21k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the impact of socioeconomic status on educational inequality, focusing on factors such as student achievement, teacher quality, school segregation, peer effects, and education policy. It delves into the complexities of school choice, academic achievement disparities, and the effectiveness of teacher performance pay in addressing inequality.

  • Socioeconomic Status
  • Student Achievement
  • Teacher Quality
  • School Segregation
  • Peer Effects
  • Educational Inequality
  • School Choice
  • Academic Achievement
  • Teacher Performance Pay
  • Education Policy
Research works
21k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
60% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
School Choice and Performance

Which countries lead School Choice and Performance research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.4k and 204 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 China 204 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 179 works
  4. 4 Germany 138 works
  5. 5 India 110 works
  6. 6 Australia 77 works
  7. 7 Italy 62 works
  8. 8 Spain 57 works
  9. 9 Canada 55 works
  10. 10 Sweden 52 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: 60.5%China: 8.6%United Kingdom: 7.6%Germany: 5.8%6 others listed: 17.5%60%largest
United States1,430 · 60.5%China204 · 8.6%United Kingdom179 · 7.6%Germany138 · 5.8%6 others listed414 · 17.5%

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

Which institutions lead School Choice and Performance research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Chicago publishes the most School Choice and Performance research, followed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of ChicagoUnited States 29 works
  2. 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  3. 3 Stanford UniversityUnited States 24 works
  4. 4 University of MichiganUnited States 20 works
  5. 5 The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 19 works
  6. 6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 19 works
  7. 7 Beijing Normal UniversityChina 19 works
  8. 8 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 Columbia UniversityUnited States 17 works
  10. 10 Leibniz AssociationGermany 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in School Choice and Performance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on School Choice and Performance include George Davey Smith, Donald B. Rubin and James Thomas.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Donald B. Rubin United States 301k citations
  3. 3 James Thomas United Kingdom 242k citations
  4. 4 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
  5. 5 John W. Creswell United States 186k 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 School Choice and Performance?

The most cited paper in School Choice and Performance is "Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies." (Donald B. Rubin, 1974), with 9,635 citations. Next come "Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation" (7,364) and "Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem" (6,370).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies. Donald B. Rubin · Journal of Educational Psychology Open access Oct 1974 9,635
2 Expectancy–Value Theory of Achievement Motivation Allan Wigfield, Jacquelynne S. Eccles · Contemporary Educational Psychology 2000 7,364
3 Identification of Endogenous Social Effects: The Reflection Problem Charles F. Manski · The Review of Economic Studies Jul 1993 6,370
4 College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage D. Gale, L. S. Shapley · American Mathematical Monthly 1962 5,986
5 Prediction of goal-directed behavior: Attitudes, intentions, and perceived behavioral control Icek Ajzen, Thomas J. Madden · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Sep 1986 5,553
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Where is School Choice and Performance research done?

The largest centres of School Choice and Performance research in 2022-now are Washington D.C. (United States), New York (United States), Beijing (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Washington D.C.United States 80 works
  2. 2 New YorkUnited States 56 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 53 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 47 works
  5. 5 ChicagoUnited States 45 works
  6. 6 Los AngelesUnited States 27 works
  7. 7 StanfordUnited States 26 works
  8. 8 SantiagoChile 26 works
  9. 9 Chapel HillUnited States 26 works
  10. 10 AtlantaUnited States 23 works
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Where is the best place to study School Choice and Performance?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Chicago, Stanford University and The University of Texas at Austin 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
1University of ChicagoUnited States 72.08.7%12.0×29 +11.2%
2Stanford UniversityUnited States 71.517.9%5.6×24 -9.2%
3The University of Texas at AustinUnited States 70.728.5%7.9×19 -17.2%
4University of OsloNorway 66.619.7%8.1×15 +82.5%
5University of Hong KongChina 62.627.7%3.7×10 +60.6%
6University of GothenburgSweden 61.922.3%8.2×11 +35.7%
7Beijing Normal UniversityChina 59.415.3%8.2×19 +79.2%
8University of MichiganUnited States 58.112.3%4.7×20 -17.6%
9University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 57.814.6%7.1×19 -11.0%
10University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55.714.5%4.1×19 -28.6%

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 School Choice and Performance, country by country

Is School Choice and Performance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% 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 School Choice and Performance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.012% in 2024.

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Fractional works of School Choice and Performance 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%School Choice and Performance10.2% 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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