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Community, Work and Family
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Community, Work and Family

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Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ccwf20

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 820 17 22 6

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 32
Documents by Best Scientists*: 38
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 55
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.721
Impact Factor: 1.5

Overview

Top Research Topics at Community, Work & Family?

Social psychology, Gender studies, Public relations, Developmental psychology and Demographic economics are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. It discusses concepts in Flexibility (personality) under Social psychology and how they intertwine with disciplines like Family life. Demographic economics and Parental leave are closely related fields of research discussed in Community, Work & Family.

The work tackled in the journal goes beyond the discipline of Parental leave as it also encompasses Labour economics.

  • Social psychology (24.47%)
  • Gender studies (16.64%)
  • Public relations (11.81%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Bridging the work-family policy and productivity gap: A literature review (337 citations)
  • Defining and conceptualizing workplace flexibility (231 citations)
  • The impact of work-family policies on women's employment: a review of research from OECD countries (225 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Community, Work & Family:

The most cited articles primarily focus on research topics in Social psychology, Labour economics, Parental leave, Flexibility (personality) and Economic growth. While work presented in the most cited papers provide substantial information on Social psychology, it also covers topics in Developmental psychology, Qualitative research, Work–family conflict and Well-being. The most cited papers explore topics in Parental leave which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Gender studies, Gender equality and Affect (psychology).

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:

Community, Work & Family generally zeroes in on subjects such as Demographic economics, Public relations, Gender studies, Economic growth and Work–family conflict. Issues in Demographic economics were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Test (assessment), Internal migration, Family-friendly, Process (engineering) and Migrant workers. The Public relations works featured in the journal incorporate elements from Autoethnography, Well-being and Public health.

It explores issues in Gender studies which can be linked to other research areas like Teenage pregnancy, Typology, Abortion, Ideology and Social determinants of health. It focuses on Economic growth but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Ratification and Phenomenon. The studies on Work–family conflict discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Self-employment, Boundary management, Immigration and Flexibility (personality).

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Managing the negative effects of work-to-family and family-to-work conflicts on family satisfaction of working mothers’ in Nigeria: the role of extended family support (10 citations)
  • Flexible time - but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages : a test of the mother-friendly job hypothesis in Sweden (4 citations)
  • Work-family conflict in Europe. A focus on the heterogeneity of self-employment (3 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 Community, Work & Family (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Mara A. Yerkes (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 3 less than at the previous edition,
  • Jody Heymann (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Rosalind C. Barnett (7 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Alison Earle (7 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 Community, Work & Family (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Utrecht University (16 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 2 less than at the previous edition,
  • Boston College (15 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • Harvard University (12 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Jyväskylä (12 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition the same number as at the previous 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, 6.25% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 17.78% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.11% of all publications and 64.44% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Gender differences in the quality of leisure: a cross-national comparison

    Mara A. Yerkes;Anne Roeters;Janeen Baxter

    (2020)
    62 Citations
  • How individual gender role beliefs, organizational gender norms, and national gender norms predict parents’ work-family guilt in Europe

    Lianne Aarntzen;Tanja van der Lippe;Elianne van Steenbergen;Belle Derks

    (2021)
    23 Citations
  • ‘That’s my job’: accounting for division of labour amongst heterosexual first time parents

    Damien Wayne Riggs;Clare Bartholomaeus

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Paid parental leave policies for single-parent households: an examination of legislative approaches in 34 OECD countries

    Judy Jou;Elizabeth Wong;Daniel Franken;Amy Raub

    (2020)
    13 Citations
  • Does flexible work 'work' in Australia? A survey of employed mothers' and fathers' work, family and health

    Stacey Hokke;Shannon K. Bennetts;Sharinne Crawford;Liana Leach

    (2021)
    11 Citations
  • Life transitions and women’s desired number of children: the impact of motherhood, relationships and employment

    Melissa Johnstone;J. Lucke;B. Hewitt

    (2020)
    9 Citations
  • Family supportive supervision in context: supporting breastfeeding at work among teachers in South Africa

    (2022)
    6 Citations
  • Family-supportive workplace policies and benefits and fertility intentions in South Korea

    Eun Jung Kim;Susan L. Parish

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Nonstandard work schedules in the UK: What are the implications for parental mental health and relationship happiness?

    (2022)
    5 Citations
  • Differential eligibility for paid leave benefits in OECD countries: the impact of tenure requirements for young workers

    Nicolas de Guzman Chorny;Amy Raub;Alison Earle;Jody Heymann

    (2021)
    5 Citations

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