Social and Educational Sciences
Social and Educational Sciences is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 25k research works in it since 1950. 4.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to research methodology in social sciences and education, including qualitative research, discourse analysis, special education, gender studies, and quantitative methods. It explores various aspects of planning, conducting, and reporting research, with a focus on learning, pedagogy, and social construction of knowledge.
- Qualitative Research
- Methodology
- Education
- Social Sciences
- Learning
- Discourse Analysis
- Special Education
- Gender Studies
- Quantitative Methods
- Pedagogy
- Research works
- 25k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 1.2k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 4.9% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- -19% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Social and Educational Sciences research?
By volume, Sweden and Denmark publish the most (752 and 676 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Sweden 752 works
- 2 Denmark 676 works
- 3 United States 232 works
- 4 Norway 214 works
- 5 China 126 works
- 6 Finland 88 works
- 7 Ukraine 76 works
- 8 India 75 works
- 9 Poland 63 works
- 10 United Kingdom 53 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Social and Educational Sciences research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Aalborg University publishes the most Social and Educational Sciences research, followed by Aarhus University and Stockholm University.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Aalborg University Denmark 158 works
- 2 Aarhus University Denmark 140 works
- 3 Stockholm University Sweden 87 works
- 4 Uppsala University Sweden 82 works
- 5 Sino-Danish Centre for Education and Research China 82 works
- 6 Lund University Sweden 72 works
- 7 Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts Ukraine 69 works
- 8 Roskilde University Denmark 66 works
- 9 Linnaeus University Sweden 61 works
- 10 Linköping University Sweden 55 works
Who are the leading researchers in Social and Educational Sciences?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Social and Educational Sciences include Peter M. Nilsson.
- 1 Peter M. Nilsson 2k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Social and Educational Sciences research done?
The largest centres of Social and Educational Sciences research in 2022–2025 are Aarhus (Denmark), Aalborg (Denmark), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Stockholm (Sweden). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kalmar, Huddinge and Falun.
Largest cities, 2022–2025
- 1 Aarhus Denmark 211 works
- 2 Aalborg Denmark 164 works
- 3 Copenhagen Denmark 155 works
- 4 Stockholm Sweden 141 works
- 5 Beijing China 118 works
- 6 Gothenburg Sweden 103 works
- 7 Uppsala Sweden 87 works
- 8 Oslo Norway 77 works
- 9 Kyiv Ukraine 73 works
- 10 Lund Sweden 73 works
Where it is the local speciality
- KalmarSE · 61.0 works214×
- HuddingeSE · 23.5 works209×
- FalunSE · 20.6 works206×
- RoskildeDK · 70.3 works155×
- KarlstadSE · 30.8 works152×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Social and Educational Sciences than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Social and Educational Sciences?
Among universities, judged by research, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg and University of Agder 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stockholm University Sweden | 82.8 | 23.2% | 99.2× | 87 | +86.0% |
| 2 | University of Gothenburg Sweden | 64.2 | 9.9% | 49.1× | 53 | +116.5% |
| 3 | University of Agder Norway | 61.5 | 12.6% | 35.7× | 10 | +310.2% |
| 4 | University of Bergen Norway | 59.7 | 15.9% | 21.9× | 16 | +45.6% |
| 5 | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Norway | 59.2 | 15.8% | 86.8× | 16 | — |
| 6 | Linnaeus University Sweden | 58.6 | 4.4% | 222.8× | 61 | +147.0% |
| 7 | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University Norway | 58.6 | 11.9% | 45.1× | 12 | +149.2% |
| 8 | Linköping University Sweden | 57.0 | 9.0% | 72.3× | 56 | +19.3% |
| 9 | Karlstad University Sweden | 57.0 | 8.7% | 182.5× | 31 | +96.3% |
| 10 | Lund University Sweden | 56.2 | 8.6% | 46.3× | 72 | -21.4% |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Social and Educational Sciences research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 19% lower than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2018. The fastest-growing topics are Social and Educational Sciences.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.