Vocational Education and Training
Vocational Education and Training is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 3.3k 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 focuses on vocational competencies in education and training, covering topics such as workplace-based assessment, digitalization, problem-solving competence, curriculum development, and professional development. It explores various aspects of skill development and competence modeling in vocational and occupational domains.
- Vocational Competencies
- Education and Training
- Workplace-based Assessment
- Digitalization in Education
- Problem-solving Competence
- Curriculum Development
- Professional Development
- Assessment Practices
- Skill Development
- Competence Modeling
- Research works
- 3.3k fractional, since 1950
- In the world top 10%
- 331 per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.0% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- +40% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
Germany
69% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Vocational Education and Training research?
By volume, Germany and China publish the most (631 and 68 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Germany
631 works
- 2
China
68 works
- 3
Switzerland
61 works
- 4
Austria
45 works
- 5
Indonesia
33 works
- 6
United States
30 works
- 7
Malaysia
17 works
- 8
United Kingdom
11 works
- 9
Greece
10 works
- 10
Philippines
10 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 Vocational Education and Training research?
By volume in 2022-now, University of Siegen publishes the most Vocational Education and Training research, followed by ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences and TU Dortmund University.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
University of SiegenGermany
17 works
- 2
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland
16 works
- 3
TU Dortmund UniversityGermany
16 works
- 4
University of MünsterGermany
16 works
- 5
Leibniz AssociationGermany
15 works
- 6
University of BremenGermany
13 works
- 7
Technische Universität DresdenGermany
12 works
- 8
University of Duisburg-EssenGermany
11 works
- 9
Universität HamburgGermany
11 works
- 10
Bielefeld UniversityGermany
10 works
Where is Vocational Education and Training research done?
The largest centres of Vocational Education and Training research in 2022-now are Berlin (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Munich (Germany) and Zurich (Switzerland).
Where is the best place to study Vocational Education and Training?
Among universities, judged by research, University of Siegen, University of Bremen and University of Duisburg-Essen 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 first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of SiegenGermany |
72.6 | 13.4% | 139.4× | 17 | +876.3% |
| 2 | University of BremenGermany |
59.0 | 12.4% | 57.6× | 13 | -39.4% |
| 3 | University of Duisburg-EssenGermany |
58.2 | 18.7% | 31.3× | 11 | -26.0% |
| 4 | Technische Universität DresdenGermany |
54.5 | 5.7% | 23.5× | 12 | +14.0% |
| 5 | University of CologneGermany |
54.4 | 9.9% | 24.0× | 9 | +32.2% |
| 6 | Universität HamburgGermany |
51.1 | 10.6% | 16.1× | 11 | +33.5% |
| 7 | TU Dortmund UniversityGermany |
50.7 | 3.3% | 68.5× | 16 | +22.9% |
| 8 | Bielefeld UniversityGermany |
49.9 | 14.4% | 48.7× | 10 | +8.6% |
| 9 | University of MünsterGermany |
48.9 | 4.0% | 40.4× | 16 | +45.3% |
| 10 | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland |
43.9 | 0.7% | 165.5× | 16 | +445.7% |
| 11 | Leibniz University HannoverGermany |
36.9 | 2.3% | 37.4× | 10 | +61.4% |
| 12 | Paderborn UniversityGermany |
28.7 | 12.0% | 66.5× | 8 | -29.0% |
| 13 | Carl von Ossietzky Universität OldenburgGermany |
20.8 | 7.7% | 62.1× | 9 | -12.5% |
| 14 | University of KasselGermany |
14.1 | 0.3% | 58.2× | 8 | +18.1% |
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 Vocational Education and Training, country by countryIs Vocational Education and Training research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 40% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Vocational Education and Training.
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 Vocational Education and Training as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0038% in 2024.
Fractional works of Vocational Education and Training 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.
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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