Science and Education Research

Science and Education Research is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 32k research works in it since 1952. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on science education in schools and universities, covering topics such as teaching methodologies, didactic models, active learning, health education, HIV/AIDS prevention, youth knowledge, educational games, curriculum development, and teacher training.

Science Education
Teaching Methodologies
Didactic Models
Active Learning
Health Education
HIV/AIDS Prevention
Youth Knowledge
Educational Games
Curriculum Development
Teacher Training

Research works: 32k
In the world top 10%: 3.1k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -10%
Largest producer: Brazil

Science and Education Research

Which countries lead Science and Education Research research?

By volume, Brazil and the United States publish the most (8.4k and 296 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Brazil 8.4k works
2 United States 296 works
3 Portugal 201 works
4 Spain 112 works
5 ?? 87 works
6 Mexico 86 works
7 United Kingdom 42 works
8 France 37 works
9 Colombia 35 works
10 Paraguay 34 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.

Brazil8,388 · 90.0%United States296 · 3.2%Portugal201 · 2.2%Spain112 · 1.2%6 others listed321 · 3.4%

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

Which institutions lead Science and Education Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) publishes the most Science and Education Research research, followed by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidade Federal do Pará.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil 148 works
2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil 146 works
3 Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil 137 works
4 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 134 works
5 Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil 113 works
6 Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil 113 works
7 Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil 106 works
8 Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil 106 works
9 Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil 104 works
10 Secretaria da EducaçãoBrazil 103 works

Who are the leading researchers in Science and Education Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Science and Education Research include Déborah Carvalho Malta, André Faro and Diego Augusto Santos Silva.

1 Déborah Carvalho Malta Brazil 192k citations
2 André Faro Brazil 155k citations
3 Diego Augusto Santos Silva Brazil 152k 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 Science and Education Research?

The most cited paper in Science and Education Research is "Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel" (Luiz Marcelo Darroz, 2018), with 1,651 citations. Next come "SERUM AND URINARY LYSOZYME (MURAMIDASE) IN MONOCYTIC AND MONOMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA" (1,222) and "Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC" (1,195).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Aprendizagem significativa: a teoria de David Ausubel Luiz Marcelo Darroz · Revista Espaço Pedagógico Open access	28 May 2018	1,651
2	SERUM AND URINARY LYSOZYME (MURAMIDASE) IN MONOCYTIC AND MONOMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA Elliott F. Osserman, Dolores P. Lawlor · The Journal of Experimental Medicine Open access	Nov 1966	1,222
3	Base Nacional Comum Curricular – BNCC Delci Heinle Klein, Marcelo Augusto Fröhlich, Raquel Dilly Konrath · Revista Acadêmica Licencia&acturas Open access	31 May 2016	1,195
4	Multiletramentos na escola Acir Mário Karwoski, Beatriz Gaydeczka · Revista Brasileira de Educação Open access	Dec 2013	857
5	BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR Me. Maria Aparecida de Assunção, Marliane Corado Lobato, Walter Robson Vieira Torres · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) Open access	Oct 2019	660

All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Science and Education Research research done?

The largest centres of Science and Education Research research in 2022-now are São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Fortaleza (Brazil) and Belém (Brazil). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bagé, Chapecó and Vitória da Conquista.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 São PauloBrazil 995 works
2 Rio de JaneiroBrazil 571 works
3 FortalezaBrazil 316 works
4 BelémBrazil 298 works
5 RecifeBrazil 283 works
6 CuritibaBrazil 274 works
7 BrasíliaBrazil 246 works
8 SalvadorBrazil 227 works
9 Belo HorizonteBrazil 209 works
10 ManausBrazil 203 works

Where it is the local speciality

BagéBR · 76.1 works76×
ChapecóBR · 75.7 works73×
Vitória da ConquistaBR · 67.7 works72×
LajeadoBR · 24.8 works70×
SobralBR · 20.8 works66×
BlumenauBR · 50.5 works65×

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

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Where is the best place to study Science and Education Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and Universidade de São Paulo 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.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil	71.2	11.4%	29.4×	106	+11.6%
2	Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisBrazil	70.0	14.9%	11.1×	67	-4.7%
3	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	69.7	12.8%	8.0×	134	-27.6%
4	Universidade do Estado do ParáBrazil	68.6	12.1%	87.8×	91	+12.6%
5	Universidade Federal do ABCBrazil	67.1	13.6%	34.1×	42	+14.3%
6	Universidade Federal da BahiaBrazil	66.3	12.3%	19.9×	47	+13.8%
7	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulBrazil	65.2	11.6%	22.7×	146	-31.0%
8	Universidade Estadual do CearáBrazil	65.2	8.8%	80.0×	113	+5.6%
9	Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaBrazil	64.1	10.2%	19.3×	104	-17.9%
10	Universidade Federal da ParaíbaBrazil	64.0	13.1%	24.4×	80	-6.6%
11	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do NorteBrazil	63.2	8.8%	32.7×	101	+2.3%
12	Universidade Federal do AmazonasBrazil	63.2	9.2%	55.9×	99	+18.0%
13	Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	62.8	13.2%	29.6×	40	+31.3%
14	Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	62.4	8.5%	16.2×	102	-1.0%
15	Universidade Federal do ParáBrazil	62.1	9.4%	42.2×	138	-3.0%
16	Universidade Federal de São CarlosBrazil	62.1	10.8%	26.4×	84	-5.8%
17	Universidade Federal Rural de PernambucoBrazil	61.8	11.2%	51.9×	69	+1.4%
18	Universidade Federal do MaranhãoBrazil	61.1	9.9%	38.3×	64	+22.5%
19	Universidade Federal do PiauíBrazil	61.0	13.8%	42.5×	69	-18.3%
20	Universidade Federal de AlagoasBrazil	60.7	8.7%	51.3×	87	+8.9%
21	Universidade CeumaBrazil	60.5	19.8%	48.8×	13	+115.4%
22	Universidade de BrasíliaBrazil	60.2	10.6%	19.5×	92	-15.5%
23	Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)Brazil	60.1	8.6%	21.8×	148	-20.7%
24	Universidade do Estado do AmazonasBrazil	60.1	10.4%	75.1×	53	+21.5%
25	Universidade ParanaenseBrazil	59.5	19.8%	40.8×	11	+78.2%
26	Universidade Federal do PampaBrazil	59.0	11.6%	84.3×	75	-21.4%
27	Universidade BrasilBrazil	58.7	9.7%	17.9×	16	-4.9%
28	Centro Universitário InternacionalMexico	58.7	15.8%	64.2×	9	+18.5%
29	Universidade Federal de São PauloBrazil	58.4	11.3%	12.9×	46	-14.7%
30	Universidade Federal do ParanáBrazil	58.1	9.5%	25.7×	106	-13.5%
31	Universidade de PernambucoBrazil	57.9	13.4%	44.0×	52	-14.6%
32	Universidade SalvadorBrazil	57.9	12.2%	54.8×	21	+62.9%
33	Universidade Federal de PernambucoBrazil	57.4	11.1%	24.6×	100	-22.3%
34	Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrazil	57.3	9.9%	32.6×	113	-26.6%
35	Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde PúblicaBrazil	57.3	13.6%	33.4×	8	+11.1%
36	San Antonio CollegeUnited States	56.0	11.6%	50.0×	17	+198.2%
37	Southwest Bahia State UniversityBrazil	55.9	8.1%	80.9×	68	+9.0%
38	Universidade do Estado do Rio de JaneiroBrazil	55.6	11.0%	19.5×	74	-28.2%
39	Universidade Federal de Ouro PretoBrazil	55.5	9.4%	34.1×	37	+13.4%
40	Universidade Federal de GoiásBrazil	55.3	11.2%	26.8×	71	-24.8%
41	Centro Universitário UnaBrazil	55.2	22.8%	37.3×	12	-25.9%
42	Universidade Estadual do MaranhãoBrazil	55.0	7.5%	75.8×	43	+102.3%
43	Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de AlagoasBrazil	53.7	11.7%	104.2×	21	+27.3%
44	University Center of BrasíliaBrazil	53.7	14.3%	28.7×	10	+94.8%
45	Martin Luther Christian UniversityIndia	53.0	17.6%	95.5×	9	-
46	Escola Superior de Ciências da SaúdeBrazil	52.8	17.8%	35.4×	9	-15.5%
47	Escola da CidadeBrazil	52.2	7.7%	108.4×	22	+13.9%
48	Universidade de Ribeirão PretoBrazil	51.3	14.4%	11.9×	12	-27.8%
49	Universitario Francisco de AsísUruguay	51.2	8.8%	45.0×	28	+3.6%
50	Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem ComercialBrazil	51.1	6.7%	113.0×	35	+39.4%
51	University of AveiroPortugal	48.2	24.5%	3.9×	10	-50.5%
52	University of LisbonPortugal	47.7	14.6%	3.5×	22	-29.9%
53	Universidad Europea del AtlánticoSpain	44.3	9.7%	72.1×	11	-
54	Centro Universitário UNINOVAFAPIBrazil	43.0	7.6%	37.8×	8	+24.7%
55	Universidade do PortoPortugal	35.3	19.9%	1.7×	9	-50.7%
56	Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do SulBrazil	32.8	3.7%	27.9×	9	-21.6%

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 Science and Education Research, country by country

Is Science and Education Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020.

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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 Science and Education Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

Fractional works of Science and Education Research 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.

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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Which countries lead Science and Education Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Science and Education Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Science and Education Research?

What are the most cited papers in Science and Education Research?

Where is Science and Education Research research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Science and Education Research?

Is Science and Education Research research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion