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Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Service-Learning and Community Engagement is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 15k 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 impact of service-learning in higher education, focusing on community engagement, civic education, social justice, and student development. It delves into the effects of service-learning on academic outcomes, civic engagement, and the development of reflective and responsible citizens through university-community partnerships.

  • Service-Learning
  • Community Engagement
  • Civic Education
  • Social Justice
  • Reflection
  • Academic Outcomes
  • Civic Engagement
  • University-Community Partnerships
  • Student Development
  • Pedagogy
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+7%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
65% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Service-Learning and Community Engagement

Which countries lead Service-Learning and Community Engagement research?

By volume, the United States and Canada publish the most (1.8k and 184 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.8k works
  2. 2 Canada 184 works
  3. 3 Spain 142 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 134 works
  5. 5 Australia 115 works
  6. 6 China 96 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 82 works
  8. 8 South Africa 74 works
  9. 9 India 68 works
  10. 10 Philippines 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.

United States: 65.0%Canada: 6.7%Spain: 5.2%United Kingdom: 4.9%6 others listed: 18.2%65%largest
United States1,774 · 65.0%Canada184 · 6.7%Spain142 · 5.2%United Kingdom134 · 4.9%6 others listed496 · 18.2%

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

Which institutions lead Service-Learning and Community Engagement research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indiana University publishes the most Service-Learning and Community Engagement research, followed by Purdue University West Lafayette and The Ohio State University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indiana UniversityUnited States 22 works
  2. 2 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States 18 works
  3. 3 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 18 works
  4. 4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 18 works
  5. 5 City University of New YorkUnited States 16 works
  6. 6 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 15 works
  7. 7 University of FloridaUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 University of MichiganUnited States 15 works
  9. 9 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 14 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Service-Learning and Community Engagement?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Service-Learning and Community Engagement include Étienne Wenger.

  1. 1 Étienne Wenger United States 146k 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 Service-Learning and Community Engagement?

The most cited paper in Service-Learning and Community Engagement is "Communities of practice learning, meaning, and identity" (Étienne Wenger, 1999), with 28,509 citations. Next come "Sense of community: A definition and theory" (5,823) and "Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development" (2,949).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Communities of practice learning, meaning, and identity Étienne Wenger 1999 28,509
2 Sense of community: A definition and theory David W. McMillan, David M. Chavis · Journal of Community Psychology 1986 5,823
3 Key competencies in sustainability: a reference framework for academic program development Arnim Wiek, Lauren Withycombe, Charles L. Redman · Sustainability Science 18 May 2011 2,949
4 What Kind of Citizen? The Politics of Educating for Democracy Joel Westheimer, Joseph E. Kahne · American Educational Research Journal 2004 2,476
5 Beyond individualism/collectivism: New cultural dimensions of values. Shalom H. Schwartz 1994 2,388
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Where is Service-Learning and Community Engagement research done?

The largest centres of Service-Learning and Community Engagement research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Washington D.C. (United States), London (United Kingdom) and Toronto (Canada).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 56 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 42 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 30 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 25 works
  6. 6 ChicagoUnited States 24 works
  7. 7 Los AngelesUnited States 24 works
  8. 8 MelbourneAustralia 23 works
  9. 9 Hong KongChina 22 works
  10. 10 BaltimoreUnited States 21 works
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Where is the best place to study Service-Learning and Community Engagement?

Among universities, judged by research, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, University of Colorado Boulder and Indiana University 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 15.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Colora…Hong Kong Polytechni…Arizona State Univer…Indiana 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
1Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 65.730.4%5.9×15 -32.0%
2University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 60.434.5%7.3×10 -6.9%
3Indiana UniversityUnited States 53.79.1%7.7×22 -29.7%
4Arizona State UniversityUnited States 52.516.1%7.2×14 -1.4%
5University of MichiganUnited States 49.66.8%3.3×15 +35.1%
6The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 49.09.5%5.0×18 +15.3%
7University of TorontoCanada 48.118.6%2.3×14 -7.7%
8University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 44.07.2%7.0×12 +85.8%
9University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 43.87.1%5.4×14 +87.1%
10Colorado State UniversityUnited States 42.414.0%8.5×9 +61.7%

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 Service-Learning and Community Engagement, country by country

Is Service-Learning and Community Engagement research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2020. The fastest-growing topics are Service-Learning and Community Engagement.

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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 Service-Learning and Community Engagement as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.015% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Service-Learning and Community Engagement0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Service-Learning and Community Engagement 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%Service-Learning and Community Engagement10.6% 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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