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Science Education and Pedagogy

Science Education and Pedagogy is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the enhancement of science education through inquiry-based teaching, argumentation discourse, and the development of scientific literacy. It delves into topics such as the nature of science, conceptual change, STEM education, socioscientific issues, learning progressions, teacher preparation, and model-based learning. The research emphasizes the importance of fostering critical thinking and practical skills in science education.

  • Inquiry-Based Teaching
  • Scientific Literacy
  • Argumentation Discourse
  • Nature of Science
  • Conceptual Change
  • STEM Education
  • Socioscientific Issues
  • Learning Progressions
  • Teacher Preparation
  • Model-Based Learning
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Science Education and Pedagogy

Which countries lead Science Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume, the United States and Indonesia publish the most (1.4k and 922 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.4k works
  2. 2 Indonesia 922 works
  3. 3 Türkiye 588 works
  4. 4 Germany 268 works
  5. 5 China 233 works
  6. 6 Philippines 179 works
  7. 7 Brazil 162 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 146 works
  9. 9 Spain 143 works
  10. 10 Australia 136 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: 34.1%Indonesia: 21.9%Türkiye: 14.0%Germany: 6.4%6 others listed: 23.7%34%largest
United States1,436 · 34.1%Indonesia922 · 21.9%Türkiye588 · 14.0%Germany268 · 6.4%6 others listed999 · 23.7%

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

Which institutions lead Science Education and Pedagogy research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indonesia University of Education publishes the most Science Education and Pedagogy research, followed by State University of Malang and Yogyakarta State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 76 works
  2. 2 State University of MalangIndonesia 72 works
  3. 3 Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 67 works
  4. 4 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 46 works
  5. 5 Mi̇lli̇ Eği̇ti̇m BakanliğiTürkiye 37 works
  6. 6 State University of SemarangIndonesia 31 works
  7. 7 University of IoanninaGreece 30 works
  8. 8 University of MataramIndonesia 30 works
  9. 9 Hacettepe UniversityTürkiye 30 works
  10. 10 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Science Education and Pedagogy?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Science Education and Pedagogy include Richard A. Gibbs, Andrew David Oxman and Yvonna S. Lincoln.

  1. 1 Richard A. Gibbs United States 292k citations
  2. 2 Andrew David Oxman Norway 168k citations
  3. 3 Yvonna S. Lincoln United States 148k 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 Education and Pedagogy?

The most cited paper in Science Education and Pedagogy is "Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning" (John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, Paul Duguid, 1989), with 13,078 citations. Next come "The Use of Cronbach’s Alpha When Developing and Reporting Research Instruments in Science Education" (10,668) and "Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses" (6,063).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, Paul Duguid · Educational Researcher Open access 1989 13,078
2 The Use of Cronbach’s Alpha When Developing and Reporting Research Instruments in Science Education Keith S. Taber · Research in Science Education Open access 7 Jun 2017 10,668
3 Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses Richard R. Hake · American Journal of Physics 1998 6,063
4 Categorization and Representation of Physics Problems by Experts and Novices* T. H. Michelene, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert A. Glaser · Cognitive Science Apr 1981 5,269
5 Accommodation of a scientific conception: Toward a theory of conceptual change George J. Posner, Kenneth A. Strike, Peter W. Hewson et al. · Science Education Apr 1982 5,128
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Where is Science Education and Pedagogy research done?

The largest centres of Science Education and Pedagogy research in 2022-now are Ankara (Türkiye), Bandung (Indonesia), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and Malang (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Butare and Ioannina.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AnkaraTürkiye 118 works
  2. 2 BandungIndonesia 96 works
  3. 3 YogyakartaIndonesia 87 works
  4. 4 MalangIndonesia 80 works
  5. 5 IstanbulTürkiye 72 works
  6. 6 SurabayaIndonesia 54 works
  7. 7 JakartaIndonesia 49 works
  8. 8 SemarangIndonesia 43 works
  9. 9 New YorkUnited States 43 works
  10. 10 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 37 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ButareRW · 24.1 works50×
  2. IoanninaGR · 30.3 works28×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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

Among universities, judged by research, University of Ioannina, University of South Florida and Education University of Hong Kong 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 IoanninaGreece 71.728.6%32.0×30 +321.4%
2University of South FloridaUnited States 62.132.0%4.2×10 +20.6%
3Education University of Hong KongChina 61.127.6%14.6×12 +92.4%
4Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 61.034.8%18.9×15 -15.3%
5University of RwandaRwanda 59.112.0%57.8×24 +116.2%
6Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 58.619.5%4.3×19 +29.5%
7Boğaziçi UniversityTürkiye 58.223.1%33.1×17 +49.1%
8Michigan State UniversityUnited States 55.524.2%5.6×23 -31.3%
9Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu KielGermany 52.225.2%9.3×16 -30.1%
10Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 50.84.5%21.0×67 +1.0%

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 Education and Pedagogy, country by country

Is Science Education and Pedagogy research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Science Education and Pedagogy.

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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 Education and Pedagogy as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.022% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Science Education and Pedagogy 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%Science Education and Pedagogy10.0% 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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