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Writing and Handwriting Education

Writing and Handwriting Education is a research topic within Education. Science Explorer counts 9.8k research works in it since 1951. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on effective strategies for writing instruction in education, including handwriting development, self-regulated strategy development, meta-analyses of writing interventions, and the impact of writing on learning and academic achievement. It covers a wide range of topics related to writing skills, motivation, cognitive development, and interventions for students with learning disabilities.

  • Writing Instruction
  • Handwriting Development
  • Self-Regulated Strategy Development
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Adolescent Students
  • Elementary Grades
  • Cognitive Developmental Perspective
  • Reading Interventions
  • Learning Disabilities
  • Occupational Therapy
Research works
9.8k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
34% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Writing and Handwriting Education

Which countries lead Writing and Handwriting Education research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (531 and 234 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 531 works
  2. 2 China 234 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 164 works
  4. 4 Türkiye 141 works
  5. 5 Spain 96 works
  6. 6 France 84 works
  7. 7 Canada 84 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 82 works
  9. 9 India 75 works
  10. 10 Brazil 59 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: 34.3%China: 15.1%Indonesia: 10.6%Türkiye: 9.1%6 others listed: 31.0%34%largest
United States531 · 34.3%China234 · 15.1%Indonesia164 · 10.6%Türkiye141 · 9.1%6 others listed480 · 31.0%

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

Which institutions lead Writing and Handwriting Education research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Writing and Handwriting Education research, followed by University of California, Irvine and Islamic Azad University, Tehran.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 23 works
  2. 2 University of California, IrvineUnited States 12 works
  3. 3 Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 12 works
  4. 4 Arizona State UniversityUnited States 11 works
  5. 5 National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 10 works
  6. 6 University of AucklandNew Zealand 10 works
  7. 7 Georgia State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  8. 8 Florida State UniversityUnited States 10 works
  9. 9 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 9 works
  10. 10 Gazi UniversityTürkiye 9 works

Who are the leading researchers in Writing and Handwriting Education?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Writing and Handwriting Education include Stephen V. Faraone.

  1. 1 Stephen V. Faraone United States 169k 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 Writing and Handwriting Education?

The most cited paper in Writing and Handwriting Education is "An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings." (James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart, 1981), with 4,847 citations. Next come "The Psychology of Written Composition" (2,829) and "Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies" (2,597).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings. James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart · Psychological Review Sep 1981 4,847
2 The Psychology of Written Composition Alister Cumming, Carl Bereiter, Marlene Scardamalia · Modern Language Journal 1989 2,829
3 Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies Philip H. K. Seymour, Mikko T. Aro, Jane M. Erskine · British Journal of Psychology May 2003 2,597
4 A meta-analysis of writing instruction for adolescent students. Steve Graham, Dolores Perin · Journal of Educational Psychology Review Aug 2007 1,606
5 Learning to Read Words: Theory, Findings, and Issues Linnea C. Ehri · Scientific Studies of Reading 23 Mar 2005 1,407
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Where is Writing and Handwriting Education research done?

The largest centres of Writing and Handwriting Education research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Ankara (Türkiye), Paris (France) and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 31 works
  2. 2 AnkaraTürkiye 29 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 21 works
  4. 4 Kuala LumpurMalaysia 17 works
  5. 5 MontrealCanada 17 works
  6. 6 LondonUnited Kingdom 17 works
  7. 7 Hong KongChina 17 works
  8. 8 IstanbulTürkiye 16 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 16 works
  10. 10 TehranIran 16 works
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Where is the best place to study Writing and Handwriting Education?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California, Irvine, University of Auckland and Arizona State University 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.

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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 California, IrvineUnited States 89.636.6%8.6×12 +84.0%
2University of AucklandNew Zealand 77.739.5%8.2×10 +12.5%
3Arizona State UniversityUnited States 63.733.4%7.5×11 -33.4%
4Georgia State UniversityUnited States 56.325.7%15.3×10 +1.0%
5Florida State UniversityUnited States 55.919.2%12.4×10 +11.7%
6Education University of Hong KongChina 49.824.2%25.2×8 +20.7%
7University of DelawareUnited States 49.324.2%12.6×8 +34.3%
8Islamic Azad University, TehranIran 47.18.0%3.3×12 +25.7%
9National University of MalaysiaMalaysia 45.27.8%7.0×10 +18.3%
10University of Hong KongChina 40.021.9%3.8×8 +5.1%

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 Writing and Handwriting Education, country by country

Is Writing and Handwriting Education research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Writing and Handwriting 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 Writing and Handwriting Education as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Writing and Handwriting 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.

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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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