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Social Skills and Education

Social Skills and Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 9k 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 explores the importance of social skills, emotional intelligence, and life skills in the education and development of adolescents and university students. It covers topics such as teacher training, communication, and the role of soft skills in pedagogy.

  • Social Skills
  • Education
  • Adolescents
  • University Students
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Teacher Training
  • Life Skills
  • Communication
  • Soft Skills
  • Pedagogy
Research works
9k
fractional, since 1952
In the world top 10%
880
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Mexico
19% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Social Skills and Education

Which countries lead Social Skills and Education research?

By volume, Mexico and Ecuador publish the most (585 and 564 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Mexico 585 works
  2. 2 Ecuador 564 works
  3. 3 Peru 470 works
  4. 4 Colombia 404 works
  5. 5 Spain 351 works
  6. 6 Brazil 292 works
  7. 7 Chile 161 works
  8. 8 Argentina 132 works
  9. 9 Venezuela 93 works
  10. 10 United States 76 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.

Mexico: 18.7%Ecuador: 18.0%Peru: 15.0%Colombia: 12.9%6 others listed: 35.4%19%largest
Mexico585 · 18.7%Ecuador564 · 18.0%Peru470 · 15.0%Colombia404 · 12.9%6 others listed1,106 · 35.4%

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

Which institutions lead Social Skills and Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad César Vallejo publishes the most Social Skills and Education research, followed by Universidad Estatal de Milagro and Ação Educativa.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad César VallejoPeru 126 works
  2. 2 Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 89 works
  3. 3 Ação EducativaBrazil 87 works
  4. 4 Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 41 works
  5. 5 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoMexico 38 works
  6. 6 National University of San MarcosPeru 37 works
  7. 7 Universidad Técnica de ManabíEcuador 35 works
  8. 8 Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y TecnologíaPanama 35 works
  9. 9 Universidad Estatal Península de Santa ElenaEcuador 32 works
  10. 10 Universidad de San Carlos de GuatemalaGuatemala 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Social Skills and Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Social Skills and Education include Kenneth A. Dodge and David P. Farrington.

  1. 1 Kenneth A. Dodge United States 95k citations
  2. 2 David P. Farrington United Kingdom 84k 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 Social Skills and Education?

The most cited paper in Social Skills and Education is "Social Learning Theory." (Jackson Kytle, Albert Bandura, 1978), with 25,666 citations. Next come "THE ACT OF DISCOVERY" (1,458) and "Social Competence in Children" (1,201).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Social Learning Theory. Jackson Kytle, Albert Bandura · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews 1978 25,666
2 THE ACT OF DISCOVERY Jerome S. Bruner Book chapter 27 Sep 2006 1,458
3 Social Competence in Children Kenneth A. Dodge, Gregory S. Pettit, Cynthia L. McClaskey et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 1986 1,201
4 Investigación cualitativa: Método fenomenológico hermenéutico Doris Fuster-Guillén · Propósitos y Representaciones Open access 2019 581
5 Social Competence at School: Relation Between Social Responsibility and Academic Achievement Kathryn R. Wentzel · Review of Educational Research Mar 1991 453
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Where is Social Skills and Education research done?

The largest centres of Social Skills and Education research in 2022-now are Lima (Peru), Bogotá (Colombia), Trujillo (Peru) and Mexico City (Mexico). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in La Libertad and Trujillo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 LimaPeru 166 works
  2. 2 BogotáColombia 155 works
  3. 3 TrujilloPeru 154 works
  4. 4 Mexico CityMexico 142 works
  5. 5 GuayaquilEcuador 142 works
  6. 6 São PauloBrazil 123 works
  7. 7 QuitoEcuador 68 works
  8. 8 Panama CityPanama 65 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 62 works
  10. 10 SantiagoChile 59 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. La LibertadEC · 31.8 works141×
  2. TrujilloPE · 153.6 works99×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Social Skills and Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Almería, Universidad César Vallejo and Universidad de Granada 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 19.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of AlmeríaUniversidad de GranadaUniversidad César Va…Universidad Estatal …
above the meannear itbelow it

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 AlmeríaSpain 66.139.5%24.8×12 +5.1%
2Universidad César VallejoPeru 61.311.5%147.8×126 +73.5%
3Universidad de GranadaSpain 61.029.3%10.9×19 +33.2%
4Universidad Estatal de MilagroEcuador 55.37.4%253.3×89 +1134.2%
5Universidad Técnica de AmbatoEcuador 51.412.3%88.5×41 +508.4%
6Universidad Peruana UniónPeru 49.622.5%120.3×18 +47.6%
7Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 49.522.1%9.1×12 +32.6%
8Pontificia Universidad Católica del EcuadorEcuador 49.420.2%81.6×30 -3.7%
9Universidad Nacional de ChimborazoEcuador 48.516.4%68.0×17 +137.6%
10Central University of EcuadorEcuador 47.013.5%57.5×20 +199.0%

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 Social Skills and Education, country by country

Is Social Skills and Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Social Skills and Education.

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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 Social Skills and Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0099% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Social Skills and Education0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Social Skills and Education 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%Social Skills and Education9.8% in 202520102020

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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