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Comparative Education
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Comparative Education

0305-0068

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cced20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 351 12 19 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 14
Documents by Best Scientists*: 20
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 72
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.237
Impact Factor: 3.7

Overview

Top Research Topics at Comparative Education?

Comparative Education primarily focuses on research topics in Comparative education, Economic growth, Social science, Higher education and Education policy. Some problems in Comparative education that were presented in the journal overlapped with concepts under Vocational education, Pedagogy, Educational research, Primary education and Public administration. Research on Primary education addressed in Comparative Education frequently intersections with the field of Education.

The majority of Economic growth studies presented zero in on Developing country. It focuses on Social science but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Curriculum, Public relations, Epistemology, Philosophy of education and Politics. Politics study tackled is connected to the field of Political economy.

While Education policy is the focus of it, it also provided insights into the studies of Education reform and Education theory.

  • Comparative education (38.86%)
  • Economic growth (22.07%)
  • Social science (21.93%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Big Policies/Small World: An introduction to international perspectives in education policy (860 citations)
  • Globalisation, New Managerialism, Academic Capitalism and Entrepreneurialism in Universities: Is the local dimension still important? (513 citations)
  • Returns to education : an updated international comparison (396 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Comparative Education:

The published articles are mainly concerned with subjects like Comparative education, Social science, Economic growth, Higher education and Political economy. The journal papers focus on Comparative education but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Accountability, Public administration, International education, Education policy and Politics. While the journal papers focused on Social science, they were also able to explore topics like Context (language use) and Pedagogy, Curriculum.

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

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Education

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Comparative Education tackles a plethora of topics, such as Comparative education, Curriculum, Pedagogy, Public administration and Public relations. The journal facilitates discussions on Comparative education that incorporate concepts from other fields like Political system, Data collection, Interpretation (philosophy), Islam and Content analysis. In it, Civics, Policy analysis and Unit of observation are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Curriculum research.

Mythology, Meritocracy, Hybridity and Competence (human resources) are some topics wherein Pedagogy research discussed in it have an impact. The work on Public administration tackled in Comparative Education brings together disciplines like New public management, Social change, Institution, Scholarship and Education policy. The journal explores topics in Public relations which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Privilege (social inequality), Context (language use), School choice and 21st century skills.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • What Kind of Citizens? Constructing 'Young Europeans' through Loud Borrowing in Curriculum Policy-Making in Kosovo. (2 citations)
  • Blurring the boundaries: University actorhood and institutional change in global higher education (1 citations)
  • Global university rankings as ‘sticky’ objects and ‘refrains’: affect and mediatisation in India (1 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 Comparative Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Michael W Crossley (38 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Robert Cowen (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • Patricia Broadfoot (19 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Edmund J. King (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Michele Schweisfurth (14 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 Comparative Education (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Institute of Education (62 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Bristol (40 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Hong Kong (23 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Oxford (21 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • University of Cambridge (19 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, 1.89% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 11.54% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.77% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 23.08% of all publications and 59.62% 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

  • A meta-review of typologies of global citizenship education

    Karen Pashby;Marta da Costa;Sharon Stein;Vanessa Andreotti

    (2020)
    301 Citations
  • Global science and national comparisons: beyond bibliometrics and scientometrics

    Simon Marginson;Simon Marginson

    (2021)
    56 Citations
  • Accelerating Hong Kong’s reeducation: ‘mainlandisation’, securitisation and the 2020 National Security Law

    (2022)
    48 Citations
  • Market models and segregation: examining mechanisms of student sorting

    (2021)
    31 Citations
  • Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda

    (2022)
    28 Citations
  • Global rankings at a local cost? The strategic pursuit of status and the third mission

    Jenny J. Lee;Hillary Vance;Bjørn Stensaker;Sowmya Ghosh

    (2020)
    22 Citations
  • School segregation: theoretical insights and future directions

    (2021)
    21 Citations
  • Building trust: how low-income parents navigate neoliberalism in Singapore’s education system

    Charleen Chiong;Clive Dimmock

    (2020)
    17 Citations
  • Connecting research and knowledge on educational leadership in the West and Asia: adopting a cross-cultural comparative perspective

    Clive Dimmock

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Global Salvation Inc.: Sir Michael Barber’s education for the apocalypse and the church of Deliverology®

    (2023)
    14 Citations

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