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STEM Education

STEM Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 48k research works in it since 1954. 9.7% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the development and effectiveness of various teaching and learning methods in the context of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education. It includes topics such as problem-based learning, interactive multimedia, mobile learning, teacher performance management, virtual reality, and the integration of Islamic values and local wisdom into education.

  • Problem Based Learning
  • STEM Education
  • Interactive Multimedia
  • Critical Thinking Skills
  • Mobile Learning
  • Teacher Performance
  • Local Wisdom
  • Virtual Reality
  • Islamic Values
  • Digital Learning
Research works
48k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
4.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.7%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+33%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Indonesia
95% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
STEM Education

Which countries lead STEM Education research?

By volume, Indonesia and ?? publish the most (22k and 548 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indonesia 22k works
  2. 2 ?? 548 works
  3. 3 Malaysia 166 works
  4. 4 United States 151 works
  5. 5 Philippines 115 works
  6. 6 Singapore 69 works
  7. 7 Sudan 62 works
  8. 8 Thailand 52 works
  9. 9 India 43 works
  10. 10 China 35 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.

Indonesia: 94.8%??: 2.3%Malaysia: 0.7%United States: 0.6%6 others listed: 1.6%95%largest
Indonesia22k · 94.8%??548 · 2.3%Malaysia166 · 0.7%United States151 · 0.6%6 others listed376 · 1.6%

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

Which institutions lead STEM Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, State University of Padang publishes the most STEM Education research, followed by State University of Medan and Indonesia University of Education.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 State University of PadangIndonesia 851 works
  2. 2 State University of MedanIndonesia 780 works
  3. 3 Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 705 works
  4. 4 Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 612 works
  5. 5 State University of MakassarIndonesia 611 works
  6. 6 Universitas Muhammadiyah Tapanuli SelatanIndonesia 596 works
  7. 7 Universitas PGRI SemarangIndonesia 577 works
  8. 8 State University of MalangIndonesia 537 works
  9. 9 State University of SemarangIndonesia 535 works
  10. 10 University of MataramIndonesia 534 works

Who are the leading researchers in STEM Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on STEM Education include Sugiyono Sugiyono.

  1. 1 Sugiyono Sugiyono Indonesia 39k 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 STEM Education?

The most cited paper in STEM Education is "Research methods in education, 6th ed." (Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison, 2007), with 1,934 citations. Next come "Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Berbasis Addie Model" (754) and "Effectivity of interactive multimedia with theocentric approach to the analytical thinking skills of elementary school students in science learning" (465).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Research methods in education, 6th ed. Louis Cohen, Lawrence Manion, Keith Morrison 2007 1,934
2 Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Berbasis Addie Model Rahmat Arofah Hari Cahyadi · Halaqa Islamic Education Journal Open access 5 Jun 2019 754
3 Effectivity of interactive multimedia with theocentric approach to the analytical thinking skills of elementary school students in science learning Azmil Hasan Lubis, Febrianawati Yusup, Muhammad Darwis Dasopang et al. · Premiere Educandum Jurnal Pendidikan Dasar dan Pembelajaran Open access 30 Aug 2021 465
4 Perceptions of Students for Gamification Approach: Kahoot as a Case Study Hüseyin Bicen, Senay Kocakoyun · International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Open access 27 Feb 2018 401
5 LITERASI SAINS DALAM PEMBELAJARAN IPA Yuyu Yuliati · Jurnal Cakrawala Pendas Open access Jul 2017 388
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is STEM Education research done?

The largest centres of STEM Education research in 2022-now are Medan (Indonesia), Semarang (Indonesia), Jakarta (Indonesia) and Makassar (Indonesia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Padangsidempuan, Purworejo and Tasikmalaya.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MedanIndonesia 1.7k works
  2. 2 SemarangIndonesia 1.3k works
  3. 3 JakartaIndonesia 1.3k works
  4. 4 MakassarIndonesia 1.1k works
  5. 5 PadangIndonesia 1k works
  6. 6 BandungIndonesia 1k works
  7. 7 YogyakartaIndonesia 950 works
  8. 8 SurabayaIndonesia 887 works
  9. 9 MalangIndonesia 841 works
  10. 10 BengkuluIndonesia 640 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PadangsidempuanID · 596.5 works64×
  2. PurworejoID · 73.7 works55×
  3. TasikmalayaID · 223.5 works48×
  4. Kelurahan TounsaruID · 227.1 works42×
  5. BangkinangID · 63.6 works39×
  6. Muara BungoID · 39.6 works39×
  7. Kediri57.1 works39×
  8. KudusID · 243.7 works38×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in STEM Education than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study STEM Education?

Among universities, judged by research, Yogyakarta State University, Jambi University and Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha 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%10%20%mean 15.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitas Pendidik…Universitas Muhammad…Yogyakarta State Uni…Jambi 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
1Yogyakarta State UniversityIndonesia 77.815.2%41.5×476 +33.5%
2Jambi UniversityIndonesia 74.815.0%28.0×381 +43.0%
3Universitas Pendidikan GaneshaIndonesia 74.818.6%45.4×366 +5.6%
4Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof Dr HamkaIndonesia 74.217.4%42.8×187 +91.9%
5Indonesia University of EducationIndonesia 73.513.8%35.1×705 +14.0%
6State University of SemarangIndonesia 73.314.9%34.9×535 +32.2%
7Muhammadiyah University of SurakartaIndonesia 72.416.0%18.9×226 +262.2%
8Universitas GarutIndonesia 70.920.5%20.4×58 +28.9%
9Universitas Negeri SurabayaIndonesia 69.612.0%40.4×612 +37.9%
10State University of PadangIndonesia 69.110.4%39.1×851 +21.2%

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 STEM Education, country by country

Is STEM Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 33% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are STEM 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 STEM Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.11% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%STEM Education0.092% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of STEM 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%STEM Education9.5% in 20252020

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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