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Statistics Education and Methodologies

Statistics Education and Methodologies is a research topic within Statistics and Probability. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on advancing statistical literacy and reasoning in education, with a particular emphasis on addressing statistics anxiety, promoting data science education, improving teaching methods for statistical concepts, and enhancing students' quantitative skills. The cluster also explores research methods, probability literacy, statistical thinking, and the need for educational reform to foster inferential reasoning.

  • Statistics Anxiety
  • Data Science
  • Statistical Reasoning
  • Teaching Methods
  • Quantitative Skills
  • Research Methods
  • Probability Literacy
  • Statistical Thinking
  • Educational Reform
  • Inferential Reasoning
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+15%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Statistics Education and Methodologies

Which countries lead Statistics Education and Methodologies research?

By volume, the United States and Brazil publish the most (1.1k and 185 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 1.1k works
  2. 2 Brazil 185 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 183 works
  4. 4 Germany 146 works
  5. 5 Spain 135 works
  6. 6 United Kingdom 127 works
  7. 7 Australia 94 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 89 works
  9. 9 Mexico 87 works
  10. 10 Canada 78 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: 48.6%Brazil: 8.5%Indonesia: 8.4%Germany: 6.7%6 others listed: 27.9%49%largest
United States1,062 · 48.6%Brazil185 · 8.5%Indonesia183 · 8.4%Germany146 · 6.7%6 others listed610 · 27.9%

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

Which institutions lead Statistics Education and Methodologies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Universidad de Granada publishes the most Statistics Education and Methodologies research, followed by Carnegie Mellon University and University of Washington.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Universidad de GranadaSpain 30 works
  2. 2 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 20 works
  3. 3 University of WashingtonUnited States 17 works
  4. 4 Mitchell InstituteUnited States 16 works
  5. 5 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 16 works
  6. 6 Pennsylvania State UniversityUnited States 14 works
  7. 7 University of AucklandNew Zealand 14 works
  8. 8 Michigan State UniversityUnited States 13 works
  9. 9 Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 13 works
  10. 10 University of TorontoCanada 13 works

Who are the leading researchers in Statistics Education and Methodologies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Statistics Education and Methodologies include Douglas G. Altman, Robert John Tibshirani and Daniel J. Kahneman.

  1. 1 Douglas G. Altman United Kingdom 862k citations
  2. 2 Robert John Tibshirani United States 396k citations
  3. 3 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
  4. 4 Amos Tversky United States 327k citations
  5. 5 Trevor Hastie United States 301k citations
  6. 6 Ralph B. D’Agostino United States 255k citations
  7. 7 Leo Breiman United States 243k 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 Statistics Education and Methodologies?

The most cited paper in Statistics Education and Methodologies is "Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases" (Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman, 1974), with 28,737 citations. Next come "A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability" (11,600) and "Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability" (10,112).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Science 27 Sep 1974 28,737
2 A Statistical Distribution Function of Wide Applicability Waloddi Weibull · Journal of Applied Mechanics Sep 1951 11,600
3 Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability Amos Tversky, Daniel J. Kahneman · Cognitive Psychology Sep 1973 10,112
4 FOUNDATIONS OF STATISTICS Norman H. Anderson · Psychology Press eBooks Book chapter Jul 2001 6,930
5 On the psychology of prediction. Daniel J. Kahneman, Amos Tversky · Psychological Review Jul 1973 6,292
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Where is Statistics Education and Methodologies research done?

The largest centres of Statistics Education and Methodologies research in 2022-now are New York (United States), Granada (Spain), Mexico City (Mexico) and Washington D.C. (United States).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 New YorkUnited States 45 works
  2. 2 GranadaSpain 30 works
  3. 3 Mexico CityMexico 29 works
  4. 4 Washington D.C.United States 27 works
  5. 5 LondonUnited Kingdom 26 works
  6. 6 BrisbaneAustralia 26 works
  7. 7 PittsburghUnited States 25 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 24 works
  9. 9 AnkaraTürkiye 22 works
  10. 10 BandungIndonesia 22 works
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Where is the best place to study Statistics Education and Methodologies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Tasmania, University of Auckland 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%60%mean 17.1%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of TasmaniaUniversity of AucklandUniversidad de GranadaCarnegie Mellon Univ…
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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 TasmaniaAustralia 67.552.0%12.1×8 +36.6%
2University of AucklandNew Zealand 60.613.1%9.0×14 +8.9%
3Universidad de GranadaSpain 57.510.5%18.2×30 -24.7%
4Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 57.17.1%16.4×20 +208.3%
5Queensland University of TechnologyAustralia 53.910.8%13.6×13 +55.2%
6Michigan State UniversityUnited States 53.716.4%6.4×13 +22.8%
7Catholic University of the MauleChile 47.67.8%66.0×12 +55.6%
8Paderborn UniversityGermany 47.031.6%25.1×10 -36.3%
9Universidad de Los LagosChile 46.16.3%143.3×12 +21.4%
10University of TorontoCanada 45.515.4%2.2×13 +105.2%

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 Statistics Education and Methodologies, country by country

Is Statistics Education and Methodologies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 15% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Statistics Education and Methodologies.

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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 Statistics Education and Methodologies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Statistics Education and Methodologies0.014% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Statistics Education and Methodologies 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%Statistics Education and Methodologies10.4% 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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