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Children, Youth and Environments
H-index 9

Children, Youth and Environments

1546-2250

Published by: University of Cincinnati

https://journals.uc.edu/index.php/cye

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 815 19 23 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 37
Documents by Best Scientists*: 40
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index:
SCIMAGO SJR:
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at Children, Youth and Environments?

The journal is organized to address concerns in the fields of Pedagogy, Developmental psychology, Public relations, Economic growth and Social psychology.

  • Pedagogy (12.78%)
  • Developmental psychology (12.14%)
  • Public relations (9.27%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Children and Disasters: Understanding Vulnerability, Developing Capacities, and Promoting Resilience - An Introduction (251 citations)
  • Johnny walks to school, does Jane? Sex differences in children's active travel to school (150 citations)
  • The Benefits of Children's Engagement with Nature: A Systematic Literature Review (126 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Children, Youth and Environments:

The published papers investigate areas of study like Developmental psychology, Injury prevention, Occupational safety and health, Human factors and ergonomics and Suicide prevention. The works on Developmental psychology tackled in the journal publications bring together disciplines like Natural (archaeology), Applied psychology and Biosphere. The Environmental health research presented in the published papers focuses mostly on Disaster risk reduction and, on occasion, topics in Public relations.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Law
  • Social science
  • Social psychology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal aims to foster the development of research in Danish, Applied psychology, Food availability, Socioeconomics and Social psychology. The journal aims to form a more comprehensive understanding of the field by integrating disciplines like Social psychology and Environmental behavior.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Evaluating a Green Schoolyard Transformation: A Protocol Utilizing the RE-AIM Framework (1 citations)
  • Relationship between the Timing of Recess Breaks and Discipline Referrals among Elementary Children (0 citations)
  • Using Visual Q-Methodology to Explore Danish Children's Outdoor Play Preferences (0 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Children, Youth and Environments (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Louise Chawla (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Victoria Carr (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Lia Karsten (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leslie Kochanowski (6 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Rhonda Douglas Brown (5 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Children, Youth and Environments (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Charles Darwin University (2 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Western Australia (2 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of the West of England (2 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Durham University (1 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 100.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, nan% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another nan% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included nan% of all publications and nan% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Child Work in Agriculture: Acute and Chronic Health Hazards

    (2023)
    21 Citations
  • The Significance of Children and Animals: Social Development and Our Connections to Other Species (review)

    (2023)
    21 Citations
  • The Child's Environmental Amnesia—It's Ours

    (2023)
    11 Citations
  • Activity Patterns of Children and Youth in Ghent, Belgium: A Research Note

    (2023)
    10 Citations
  • Environmental Barriers and Facilitators of Physical Activity among Urban African-American Youth

    (2023)
    9 Citations
  • Sharing Programs across Cultures: Lessons from Garden Mosaics in South Africa

    (2023)
    6 Citations
  • Disparities in Food Availability around Schools in a Large Brazilian City

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • “There's kind of a wall I have to stay inside of”: A Qualitative Understanding of Children's Independent Mobility Range, Destination, Time and Expansion

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Youth Participatory Action Research on Hustling and Its Consequences: A Report from the Field

    (2023)
    5 Citations
  • More Than Just Screen Time: Children's Sedentary Behaviors at Home and the Interplay of Home Environment Factors

    (2022)
    5 Citations

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